Im Congolese, this video made me tear up, thinking about my african american relatives, what they must have been through. I love you my black American brothers, sisters
@@raconte-moialice9509 Mbote nayo yaya!! Ahahah, I speak a little of Lingala but my main language is Swahili Jambo dada!! Yes Mike Tyson is from Congo too. ruclips.net/video/-P7RCTLG72U/видео.html
Thank you for thinking of your distant African American family. I took the ancestry dna test with a few of my family members and I have found over 30 African cousins. It's been great finding out what ethnic groups my ancestors were from.
Thank you for taking the test my mother is African American and my Father is Igbo from Nigeria. I took Ancestrydna in hopes of finding African matches I know not many Africans take these DNA but I had hoped I would find some so far most of the people who have messaged me back are from Nigeria but hopefully as time goes on more African become interested in taking test. Because of people like you sharing your experience. Again thank you for being a part of African Americans learning where some of their African Ancestry came from and their ethnic group.
Hi there. More Africans should definitely take these tests, it'll help families on either side of the Atlantic find each other. Thanks for stopping by :-)
@@raconte-moialice9509 I saw your video and was glad. Thanks for your compation for us. I wish we all could feel like you. God bless you in your search 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for doing this!!! Please encourage others from Africa to test as well. A lot of us have been trying to connect with you all for so long and this is the only way to make it happen.
I'm a continental African and I can testify that I wasn't taught about the slave trade in school. I went to secondary school in the 80s and the curriculum back then was largely based on what passed down from the colonial era and as a result it was sympathetic to topics such as colonialism and slavery often excusing Europeans for their atrocities and blaming Africans for being complacent. Another historical topic that wasn't taught in any meaningful depth, in order not to cause offence, was the causes and the outcomes of inter tribal wars. What I'm saying is there was a theme about the historical curriculum to "bury one's head in the sand." SMDH.
Of all the ancestry stories I seen, this by far is the best and most touching out of them all. Thanks for sharing sis. You look like my family also, im from the Bahamas. My dna says 58% Cameron, Congo and Southern Bantu. Be bless beloved.
You know, it’s funny, people often think I’m Caribbean, and I have met some people from the French islands Guadeloupe, Martinique, who look like me. It just shows you how much we are still related.
I could relate. When I scrolled the matches on my account for the first time the emotion that came over me was sadness. I’m a West Indian that have over 5,000DNA 🧬 cousins.
I reached out to a distant African cousin from Nigeria. She's much younger than me and was born and lives in England. She was very confused when I contacted her, she asked me many questions, she kept questioning me about how we could be related if my parents are from Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands and all here family is from Nigeria. So, I reminded her of slavery and explained she must have lost some ancestors to slavery centuries ago and that I'm the descendant of one of them. That's when she got excited. I see her in my facebook and look at here pictures and so she does with mine and that's about it for now; maybe I'll meet her one day. Usually when I approach someone on Ancestry it's because I know for sure who is our common ancestor. But in her case, I guess I'll never find out but I'm still very happy that I found her.
This is awesome. I'm not sure exactly why I was apprehensive about taking the DNA test but I think this definitely encouraged me. Being African American I would definitely love to learn more about my African heritage. Also your voice is incredibly soothing lol
I’ve always wondered and searched to see if there were stories passed down in Africa about people stolen during the Slave trade. And this filled me with so much joy❤❤❤
Thank you for testing and sharing your story. I checked to see if you were one of my DNA cousins, but you're not. I have connected with some of my 100% Africans, some were open to communication and some weren't. I truly thank you for doing the test and being open to share and acknowledge your distant family.
@@nakiascott4750 i only now the african part in me, my grandmother is ados but then there are also african i me! so what i know is mali, senegal, guinea, mauritania, and ados! what the ados really is i don't know it could be anything i just know my grandmother is Ados!
I was so disappointed when I didn’t match any distant relatives in Africa. Please to my family back on the continent take the test. We are looking to re-connect. Building bridges will only make us stronger !
Thank you for sharing your results and story of your kidnapped uncle. I have never heard anyone give this perspective of the damage and pain of the slave trade. My heart aches for you and all of us affected by the stealing of people and destruction of families. 🙏🏽❤️
Honestly, this has just changed a lot of things for me. I for one come from around the coast and my specific tribe is listed as a major tribe in my country on ancestry tests. It is just very sad, that if any of my relative was taken, they would never know the exact tribe they came from. This makes me so very sad.
from watching finding your roots and others a lot of the Latino people in central America got their African descent when they were brought from slave ships to work the sugar cane, Cuba ,Dominican and other countries there.
Hey Alice! I'm so called Afrikan-American and I've found over 30 cousins that are 100% Afrikan from the continent. Many different ethnic groups from Sierra Leone to Madgascar but primarily Igbo's from Nigeria. I'm a part of groups that focus on the diaspora connecting with our long lost families through test results. May I ask what your username is to see if any of us in the group match you?
i’m 15 years old and african american and i’m really into wanting to learn my heritage and ancestry so whenever i start working i want to save money and buy me an dna test and know what i am
Thank ypu for taking the test. You helped many learn about their ancestry. I appreciate you. You also helped bridge the gap between those in the diaspora and those on the African continent that was created during the slave trade.
Bless, it's amazing that the story came down to you. That means their was a great loss, and lot of African done thinks about the families that were lost..Thee were victims and there were families. Yes I feel the sadness..
I've been going thru my father's DNA matches. All the 100% African matches have turned out either Igbo or Ewe. I want to have my mother tested to check her side.
@@emmanuelervin5035 We descend from many people. Igbo is just the most recent I presume. I've found 23 full African relatives. I have Wolof(1), Temne(1), Hausa(1), Yoruba (2), Ewe (5) and Igbo (13).
Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope your video will inspire more Africans to take a DNA test to help others connect to their African ancestry.
None of my matches are from Africa but of course it's been awhile since any of my ancestors lived there so it could be so distant that they don't show up or maybe my would be matches that do live in Africa just never took the test.
Got excited watching this! I haven’t seen a video like this before. I’m sorry for what happend to your ancestor. I myself am an african who’ve done the test and i’m now connected with several of my African American cousins. It’s truly amazing! We need more videos like these. I wish to connect with cousins in the Caribbean and South America as well.
Looking at your face I thought YOU were black American 😆 you look just like us. Thank you for caring enough to search for your long lost bantu family on this side. Much love ❤ to you sister.
The closest generation on your list marks how many generations your great uncle was taken count backwards from the closest generation match on your list will tell you when he was taken!
@@raconte-moialice9509 your welcome I just traced my paternal line to the Ewondo tribe in Cameroon 100% DNA match I'm waiting on my Maternal dna test to come back now so I will know my mom's tribe soon!
@@immaculate2197 right i was thinking about this and realized that people lost family to the slave trade, no one wanted to lose their family. no one wanted to have their families taken
I've been helping Africans in the diaspora to find their living African relatives using AncestryDNA and 23 & Me. Thank you for sharing this story! I was able to find my living African relatives through AncestryDNA just how you showed. I now know part of my African ancestry and my two of the peoples that I come from.
Thank you so much. You proved a lot with this test and video. It proves to me that if more Africans take the test (especially those in the diaspora) it will help them find their ancestors and their tribes. All those 5-8 cousins of yours along with yourself have the same 3rd or 5th great grandfather which is a very close relation. That’s incredible
Wow. This means your X great-granduncle survived the transatlantic trip and other horrendous atrocities to bear descendants today. Thank you for sharing your story! I hope more people from your same continent test and dig into research to help African Americans trace their way back. Both of my parents have in their AncestryDNA results "Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples". I have yet to trace any of my ancestors back across the ocean.
I am so happy you made this in English. I was able to find some Benin relatives from Whidah/Kingdom of Judah on the Slave Coast. Many who were later taken to Dauphine Island in Alabama. This is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much I wish I could understand the other videos because I have some ancestors from France surnamed Boyette but I will definitely share this one. Blessings
That’s wonderful that you took the DNA test. I’ve always hoped to connect with some distant relatives in Africa, so that we can form a connection. I’m African American.
Wow so interesting hear there are tribes in west and central Africa that can recite their histories back to the first kings and queens and such this was how Alex Haley found his family in gambia abasing your family remembers that story of the relative who was taken into slavery our ppl are so resilient kinda wish I know my family tribe found out I’m 40% Nigerian
Thank you so much for this. I’m from the DRC, but my mom’s dad is from the Republic of Congo. There are so many secrets in my family that I’ve been trying to get a DNA test. I’ve been hesitant because of the fact that the results are being sold to big pharma, but after watching this, I’m going to take the test.
wow I've never heard someone from homeland point of view of how they feel about slavery. never thought about it really. eye opener. and im afrolatino and want to take a dna test who knows you may be my cousin lol jk. good video
We love you too. I'm about to receive my ancestry results soon... come to see my channel to the results by this coming friday.Friday.. I may be 75% African and that other percentage.
I thank you for doing your video in English I am a African-American and I off and I always been researching Africa and the slaves trade the middle passage and it's such hot warming to hear you speak of your family and how they have kept their loved one who was taken kidnapped and put into slavery and how they have kept him alive we are the same in so many ways we were born here in the west but our roots are in Africa our I guess thank you for your video thank you for your message
That's actually pretty crazy. I always wonder how Africans reconciled with the idea that their ancestors were sold away. I know to you it may have been a story but to think of how your great great uncle's siblings and parents dealt with that and knowing that they would never see him again because he was in America. As an African American I thought I would never find out about Africa or from which African countries I came from. I still have not taken a test. I didn't grow up around anyone from Africa. I think I met someone from Nigeria in high school and he was a sub teacher. So Africa and it's many countries were like a concept that I only saw on tv and most movies about Africa surrounded around South Africa I don't know if I knew that AAs didn't come from SA when I was a teen or not. In college, I dated a Ghanian and hung around his friends and it was negative and positive but it was a learning experience because I started to learn about the foods the languages and different tribes. The thing that was hard to relate to Africans on is how race isn't a concept in Africa but it was and is apart of reality in America. Then after college, I really started to learn about each country and what languages they spoke and the major tribes. I even made a video about different African tribes and their attire I did not include Bubis and Fang sorry. I mostly spoke on Fulanis, Mandinkas, Igbos and Yorubas and Ashantis and massai.
Too many Africans slavery is painful aswell! The movie roots was banned form being shown in The Gambia because they showed it once on tv, and some Gambian boys became angry and irrational and went to the hotel and tourist sites and wanted to beat people up! So the government then decided to not show movies/series like roots anymore because it would just tear old wounds up! however some africans are selfish and don't care about anybody but themselves those exist too as well!
Wow this is amazing 👏. I did my African ancestry test and Ancestry.com test and I am 97% African and I am Balanta from Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼 and Mende from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 in West Africa on my mother's side and I am Bubi from Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 and Ewondo from Cameroon 🇨🇲 on my father's side in Central Africa. I plan to visit one day, as I always wanted to know my African roots. But your story inspires me even more to know if I have relatives in Africa living today. Many blessings to you and I hope you were able to connect with some of your relatives in the African diaspora and peace and love to Gabon 🇬🇦 as well.
Thank you for sharing your story and for doing the dna test. Which company did you use? It is amazing that your family history would include a long lost ancestor whom was not heard from and probably kidnapped. Sad. Thank you for looking for him. Peace to you.
Greetings my Fang sista! This Video is everything...I have one question; Based on the fact that you already know what nation (not tribe) that you belong to, I’m intrigued to know what drove you to take a DNA test? I’d love to hear your intentionality and rationality. Give thanks
I thought some West African DNA would show up. You know, family secrets and all... lol. My maternal grandmother's origins are kind of mysterious. Her mother showed up in our village with her parents, and they spoke fang with an accent, so I thought that they had come from the north (apparently they didn't look like central Africans). I was wrong. They probably were from a neighboring tribe ;-)
Sorry always amazes me that the African cousins remembered these stories and passed them down for so long hear of the Griots in Senegal I hear can recite tribe histories so far back …. Im wondering do you know what year this ancestor might’ve been taken ? Know the oral history in Africa has no dates but wondering if their was a war going on between tribes around this time ?
Hi cousin 🙂 So I calculated that it would have been the early 1800s. I don't know about wars at that time, although my people, the Fang, are known for being warriors, so who knows what they were up to? The French were already present in the area, and were actively taking people across the Atlantic. I wish I knew more about the exact circumstances of how he disappeared
Just seeing this for the first time. I recently found out I descend from the Fang people (on my father’s side). They are originally from Guyana and I’m trying to found out how the Fang got there. Also, do you know if the Fang descend from the biblical Tribe of Mannesah?
@@raconte-moialice9509 its documented that we went into Egypt (Elephantine) after Assyrian captivity. Then we fled into Africa after conflicts with other nations
In my country, Gabon, they don’t teach about it in schools unfortunately, so the population is vaguely aware of it, through family stories like mine probably. But yeah, unlike countries like Senegal or Ghana, our government has made no effort to remember the people who were taken. This needs to be addressed. I personally learned a lot about slavery when I took African American Studies classes at a US college.
@@raconte-moialice9509 I'm just asking because I've asked many people from different African countries, and they never mentioned they're family members being tooken from them and placed on a boat, no family stories, no evidence it personally seems far fetched that millions of Africans were just tooken without a fight and brought to another part of the world just to be slaves, when they're were people already here that they could be enslaved instead. But hey idk the sameones who stole our history and destroyed it, are the same ones who teach us and tell us what we are, then gives us a dna test that they made that constantly changes, you personally can't trace your genealogy or your family lineage just by saliva it takes documentation all the things that were purposely destroyed. DNA is only good for tracing your immediate family like a child, mom , dad , uncle etc. U can't trace back 100s of years just with spit, I did enjoy the video thank u for the reply🤗😍
@Tony Taco I just find it crazy that such a traumatic thing happen people family being ripped apart and africans don't even teach it or talk about, don't add up,
@Tony Taco I kno black American history, here's some Wish people really knew Black American history and not from the white perspective, our ancestors built this country and made it great, contributed much more then music and dancing to this place! Let's talk about the inventions and the community's that we built that generated wealth power soo much to the point where our own government had to bomb, burn down, and flood our neighborhoods with drugs, & violence😔 they even added immigration to the civil rights package to keep us from keeping property and houses with in our family & people because they didn't want us to over power the economy. They never wanted to give us reparations, so we was gonna take by keeping the money within our own community and buying up the market, property's and business being rich in the process, so for folks who wanna talk down on black Americans know this lil bit first ✊🏾🥇🏆we suffers the most and still continued pressn forward anyway we could no matter how much they make us out to be ignorant, & dangerous I love my black American ethnic group😍🌷they need us without us America is nothing
@Tony Taco because it's just confusing to me, there's no physical evidence of the slave trade, and the numbers don't add up, I highly doubt Africans would just allow u took take millions of they family members without putting up a fight, just to gain resources that Africa already posses, the story in detail isn't rational when honestly think about it, were just program through school and pass down theory that all blacks were slaves of Africa, and Africa is poor and dirty, b
Tell me Alice! Ever heard of Nzambi,or Modimo?? (briefly)the colonial powers gave us the English version of HIM (God)..U can check this out alittle more,, sincerely your spirit has connected to your house roots, your tribal ancestors associate's with the 12 lost tribes of Bantu,or So Ni niNaNi ,chosen people,,, Welcome,home Siemi!!!👋👋👋💥🙏🙏🙏
Mbolo :-) C'est "Alice En" sur ancestry. Ok, tiens-moi au courant. J'ai trouvé quelques parents au Cameroun et en Guinée Equatoriale. Ce site est vraiment fascinant...
@@raconte-moialice9509 j'ai quelques chose as vous proposez . J'aime fais qu'on s'invite pour voir nos résultats et surtout correspondances adn pour voir si on a des cousins en commun vu que le peuple ekang est le même (nous ne sommes pas liés mais avons peux être des cousins en commun). Il vous suffit de mettre mon adresse email willis_mew@yahoo.fr dans dna sharing preferences et de me donner votre email pour faire de même
@@raconte-moialice9509 dans la page d'accueil où il présente à la fois les résultats adn et les correspondances adn il y'a le bouton paramètres qui ressemble à un boulon vous cliquez ensuite vous descendez à dna sharing preferences vous mettez mon email willis_mew@yahoo.fr.....passez moi votre email si vous voulez voir mes résultats
Hey, I'm from the diaspora and I also did the DNA test. Unlike you I didn't find hundreds of people from the motherland who shared my DNA, I found 6 with African sounding names amongst the 5000 or so who were related to me. I was shocked to find my original family members 400 years later. I immediately made contact. I tried everything for about 2 years... nothing. In year 3, I tracked down one, after the initial greetings... that was it. Again no communication. My mother said I should leave it. She said "what if they find out that you are rich".....
Im Congolese, this video made me tear up, thinking about my african american relatives, what they must have been through. I love you my black American brothers, sisters
Sango nini Yaya? Indeed they went through a lot.
We love you too. I am searching for my distant cousins. I'm 53 percent Nigerian. I wish I knew exactly where to find my relatives in Africa.
@@yvonned.2193 I hope you can find some answers. You never know, try a DNA test, maybe you'll get some matches with African relatives.
@@raconte-moialice9509 ok thank you. I'll take another test
@@raconte-moialice9509 Mbote nayo yaya!! Ahahah, I speak a little of Lingala but my main language is Swahili Jambo dada!! Yes Mike Tyson is from Congo too. ruclips.net/video/-P7RCTLG72U/видео.html
It’s crazy to think that a family lost a son or a brother with no closure but showing he has descendants means he survived
That would be enough to drive you insane knowing that he or she was taken from the continent.
It's so rare to hear an african mention a family member getting captured to be sent to the americas. I wish more will share these stories.
I think many of us have heard such stories, we should write them down so those family members don't get forgotten.
You do know their were so called black people in Americas before Columbus.
First for me to.
@@PRODCOUPE nobody is speaking on that. sta on topic
@@PRODCOUPE who were they are picture or literally of them that is based on facts
Thank you for thinking of your distant African American family. I took the ancestry dna test with a few of my family members and I have found over 30 African cousins. It's been great finding out what ethnic groups my ancestors were from.
Wow 😮❤️
We are one big family. We just need to be reunited. One love!
Thank you for taking the test my mother is African American and my Father is Igbo from Nigeria. I took Ancestrydna in hopes of finding African matches I know not many Africans take these DNA but I had hoped I would find some so far most of the people who have messaged me back are from Nigeria but hopefully as time goes on more African become interested in taking test. Because of people like you sharing your experience. Again thank you for being a part of African Americans learning where some of their African Ancestry came from and their ethnic group.
Hi there. More Africans should definitely take these tests, it'll help families on either side of the Atlantic find each other. Thanks for stopping by :-)
@@raconte-moialice9509 I saw your video and was glad. Thanks for your compation for us. I wish we all could feel like you. God bless you in your search 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for doing this!!! Please encourage others from Africa to test as well. A lot of us have been trying to connect with you all for so long and this is the only way to make it happen.
I had met an African woman in England some 9 years ago that said she knew nothing about the slave trade until she came to the UK!
it's crazy but I'm really not surprised, it's sad
I'm a continental African and I can testify that I wasn't taught about the slave trade in school. I went to secondary school in the 80s and the curriculum back then was largely based on what passed down from the colonial era and as a result it was sympathetic to topics such as colonialism and slavery often excusing Europeans for their atrocities and blaming Africans for being complacent. Another historical topic that wasn't taught in any meaningful depth, in order not to cause offence, was the causes and the outcomes of inter tribal wars. What I'm saying is there was a theme about the historical curriculum to "bury one's head in the sand." SMDH.
Of all the ancestry stories I seen, this by far is the best and most touching out of them all. Thanks for sharing sis. You look like my family also, im from the Bahamas. My dna says 58% Cameron, Congo and Southern Bantu. Be bless beloved.
You know, it’s funny, people often think I’m Caribbean, and I have met some people from the French islands Guadeloupe, Martinique, who look like me. It just shows you how much we are still related.
@@raconte-moialice9509 you do also look like some of the women in my tribe
dont be sad for him. He created a grand legacy! He survived things we cant imagine. He was a worrior.
You're absolutely right!
I could relate. When I scrolled the matches on my account for the first time the emotion that came over me was sadness. I’m a West Indian that have over 5,000DNA 🧬 cousins.
I reached out to a distant African cousin from Nigeria. She's much younger than me and was born and lives in England. She was very confused when I contacted her, she asked me many questions, she kept questioning me about how we could be related if my parents are from Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands and all here family is from Nigeria. So, I reminded her of slavery and explained she must have lost some ancestors to slavery centuries ago and that I'm the descendant of one of them. That's when she got excited. I see her in my facebook and look at here pictures and so she does with mine and that's about it for now; maybe I'll meet her one day. Usually when I approach someone on Ancestry it's because I know for sure who is our common ancestor. But in her case, I guess I'll never find out but I'm still very happy that I found her.
I really hope you two get to meet one day, and make your common ancestors smile
What is her name ? And her tribe am a Nigeria too
This is awesome. I'm not sure exactly why I was apprehensive about taking the DNA test but I think this definitely encouraged me. Being African American I would definitely love to learn more about my African heritage. Also your voice is incredibly soothing lol
I was apprehensive too, but I'm so glad I did it though.
I’ve always wondered and searched to see if there were stories passed down in Africa about people stolen during the Slave trade. And this filled me with so much joy❤❤❤
Thank you for testing and sharing your story. I checked to see if you were one of my DNA cousins, but you're not. I have connected with some of my 100% Africans, some were open to communication and some weren't. I truly thank you for doing the test and being open to share and acknowledge your distant family.
This video made me tear up I am African American BEAUTIFUL video!
Thanks! This is AMAZING! I wish more Africans would do this. We are here in America wanting to connect with our family in Africa.
have you taken the test?
@@freedom_is_gold6747 yes, I have taken AncestryDNA and African Ancestry tests
@@nakiascott4750 okay what were your results like tribes/countries sista?
@@freedom_is_gold6747 I am a Massa from Cameroon. I also have DNA linked to Mali and Nigeria. What about you?
@@nakiascott4750 i only now the african part in me, my grandmother is ados but then there are also african i me! so what i know is mali, senegal, guinea, mauritania, and ados! what the ados really is i don't know it could be anything i just know my grandmother is Ados!
I was so disappointed when I didn’t match any distant relatives in Africa. Please to my family back on the continent take the test. We are looking to re-connect. Building bridges will only make us stronger !
Thank you for sharing your results and story of your kidnapped uncle. I have never heard anyone give this perspective of the damage and pain of the slave trade. My heart aches for you and all of us affected by the stealing of people and destruction of families. 🙏🏽❤️
Honestly, this has just changed a lot of things for me. I for one come from around the coast and my specific tribe is listed as a major tribe in my country on ancestry tests. It is just very sad, that if any of my relative was taken, they would never know the exact tribe they came from. This makes me so very sad.
Thank you for what you’ve done! I have found a few 100% African cousins. It’s an emotional draining journey but so rewarding!
from watching finding your roots and others a lot of the Latino people in central America got their African descent when they were brought from slave ships to work the sugar cane, Cuba ,Dominican and other countries there.
Hey Alice! I'm so called Afrikan-American and I've found over 30 cousins that are 100% Afrikan from the continent. Many different ethnic groups from Sierra Leone to Madgascar but primarily Igbo's from Nigeria. I'm a part of groups that focus on the diaspora connecting with our long lost families through test results. May I ask what your username is to see if any of us in the group match you?
Hi there. You can find me on Ancestry as "Alice En" - Please let me know if we're related, that'd be really great.
These test only go back 7 generations, did some of your ancestors migrate to the US in the 1900s?
i’m 15 years old and african american and i’m really into wanting to learn my heritage and ancestry so whenever i start working i want to save money and buy me an dna test and know what i am
thats great, do you read about african history etc?
Beautiful, lil sis! 💖
Thank ypu for taking the test. You helped many learn about their ancestry. I appreciate you. You also helped bridge the gap between those in the diaspora and those on the African continent that was created during the slave trade.
One love.
Bless, it's amazing that the story came down to you. That means their was a great loss, and lot of African done thinks about the families that were lost..Thee were victims and there were families. Yes I feel the sadness..
I'm Nigerian but I have family background in Cameroon
Corrections I'm 50 percent Nigerian
That's an amazing story sister you should write a book because you actually found your loss uncles relatives God bless
I've been going thru my father's DNA matches. All the 100% African matches have turned out either Igbo or Ewe. I want to have my mother tested to check her side.
Most African Americans descend from Igbo people.
@@emmanuelervin5035 We descend from many people. Igbo is just the most recent I presume. I've found 23 full African relatives. I have Wolof(1), Temne(1), Hausa(1), Yoruba (2), Ewe (5) and Igbo (13).
Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope your video will inspire more Africans to take a DNA test to help others connect to their African ancestry.
None of my matches are from Africa but of course it's been awhile since any of my ancestors lived there so it could be so distant that they don't show up or maybe my would be matches that do live in Africa just never took the test.
okay what countres did you get or tribes?
Wow, that's a crazy story. Thank you for sharing
Such a beautiful video of personal & ancestral reflection. Thank you for sharing.
Got excited watching this!
I haven’t seen a video like this before. I’m sorry for what happend to your ancestor.
I myself am an african who’ve done the test and i’m now connected with several of my African American cousins. It’s truly amazing!
We need more videos like these.
I wish to connect with cousins in the Caribbean and South America as well.
Thanks for your sincere words of thought. I too am from the regions you've mentioned and Southern bantu tribes...
Glad I found your video. You even look like someone I know... That’s so amazing and hopeful. 🙏🏾
Looking at your face I thought YOU were black American 😆 you look just like us. Thank you for caring enough to search for your long lost bantu family on this side. Much love ❤ to you sister.
@Firewall of Facts There have always been Black people in America. Stop baiting.
Thank you for sharing. I’ll be taking my test soon !!
You should also do the African Ancestry DNA Test. Support a black owned business as well as they have the largest African DNA system.
I'll definitely support their business, thanks for letting me know about them.
The closest generation on your list marks how many generations your great uncle was taken count backwards from the closest generation match on your list will tell you when he was taken!
Thank you :-)
@@raconte-moialice9509 your welcome I just traced my paternal line to the Ewondo tribe in Cameroon 100% DNA match I'm waiting on my Maternal dna test to come back now so I will know my mom's tribe soon!
Good stuff..
i often think of what it was like for the family members who got heart left behind. makes my heart cry😭
Yeah that’s what some AA don’t see they think those family will be happy loosing their members
@@immaculate2197 right i was thinking about this and realized that people lost family to the slave trade, no one wanted to lose their family. no one wanted to have their families taken
@@christinagraham2915 exactly but people don’t consider from African side . Am a Nigerian though
@@immaculate2197 sending love to you cousin.
@@christinagraham2915 ❤️❤️❤️ thanks sist . Sending love to you too
I've been helping Africans in the diaspora to find their living African relatives using AncestryDNA and 23 & Me. Thank you for sharing this story! I was able to find my living African relatives through AncestryDNA just how you showed. I now know part of my African ancestry and my two of the peoples that I come from.
thank you for being open to sharing this you should contact them and tell them you are Fang that would give people identity and healing
Beautiful story! Thanks for sharing my sista!❤
Thank you so much. You proved a lot with this test and video. It proves to me that if more Africans take the test (especially those in the diaspora) it will help them find their ancestors and their tribes. All those 5-8 cousins of yours along with yourself have the same 3rd or 5th great grandfather which is a very close relation. That’s incredible
Wow. This means your X great-granduncle survived the transatlantic trip and other horrendous atrocities to bear descendants today. Thank you for sharing your story! I hope more people from your same continent test and dig into research to help African Americans trace their way back. Both of my parents have in their AncestryDNA results "Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples". I have yet to trace any of my ancestors back across the ocean.
Thank you for this Video!! According to African Ancestry, I'm Paternal Lineage is Fang!
Really? Yay! Cousin :-) Let me know if you'd like to know more about the Fang tribe.
@@raconte-moialice9509 OhbI definitely would!!
I’ll try to come up with a video about our tribe 👍🏾
I am so happy you made this in English. I was able to find some Benin relatives from Whidah/Kingdom of Judah on the Slave Coast. Many who were later taken to Dauphine Island in Alabama. This is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much I wish I could understand the other videos because I have some ancestors from France surnamed Boyette but I will definitely share this one. Blessings
That’s wonderful that you took the DNA test. I’ve always hoped to connect with some distant relatives in Africa, so that we can form a connection. I’m African American.
Beautiful...thank you you for sharing! I'm I'm Gabonese on my dad father side. We are from the Obamba tribe tho!
Wow so interesting hear there are tribes in west and central Africa that can recite their histories back to the first kings and queens and such this was how Alex Haley found his family in gambia abasing your family remembers that story of the relative who was taken into slavery our ppl are so resilient kinda wish I know my family tribe found out I’m 40% Nigerian
More people should do this
Thank you so much for this. I’m from the DRC, but my mom’s dad is from the Republic of Congo. There are so many secrets in my family that I’ve been trying to get a DNA test. I’ve been hesitant because of the fact that the results are being sold to big pharma, but after watching this, I’m going to take the test.
Same here. Congolese and have been scared to take the test because I don't know what else my fna will be use for
wow I've never heard someone from homeland point of view of how they feel about slavery. never thought about it really. eye opener. and im afrolatino and want to take a dna test who knows you may be my cousin lol jk. good video
Nice video and you English is perfect too
You had to have more than one ancestor taken to the Americas.
yes, that's very possible
You should, if you haven’t already, send an email message on the Ancestry site to your relatives.
Wow this was so emotional 😢 Were you able to connect with any of them?
We love you too.
I'm about to receive my ancestry results soon... come to see my channel to the results by this coming friday.Friday.. I may be 75% African and that other percentage.
I thank you for doing your video in English I am a African-American and I off and I always been researching Africa and the slaves trade the middle passage and it's such hot warming to hear you speak of your family and how they have kept their loved one who was taken kidnapped and put into slavery and how they have kept him alive we are the same in so many ways we were born here in the west but our roots are in Africa our I guess thank you for your video thank you for your message
That's actually pretty crazy. I always wonder how Africans reconciled with the idea that their ancestors were sold away. I know to you it may have been a story but to think of how your great great uncle's siblings and parents dealt with that and knowing that they would never see him again because he was in America. As an African American I thought I would never find out about Africa or from which African countries I came from. I still have not taken a test. I didn't grow up around anyone from Africa. I think I met someone from Nigeria in high school and he was a sub teacher. So Africa and it's many countries were like a concept that I only saw on tv and most movies about Africa surrounded around South Africa I don't know if I knew that AAs didn't come from SA when I was a teen or not. In college, I dated a Ghanian and hung around his friends and it was negative and positive but it was a learning experience because I started to learn about the foods the languages and different tribes. The thing that was hard to relate to Africans on is how race isn't a concept in Africa but it was and is apart of reality in America. Then after college, I really started to learn about each country and what languages they spoke and the major tribes. I even made a video about different African tribes and their attire I did not include Bubis and Fang sorry. I mostly spoke on Fulanis, Mandinkas, Igbos and Yorubas and Ashantis and massai.
Too many Africans slavery is painful aswell! The movie roots was banned form being shown in The Gambia because they showed it once on tv, and some Gambian boys became angry and irrational and went to the hotel and tourist sites and wanted to beat people up! So the government then decided to not show movies/series like roots anymore because it would just tear old wounds up!
however some africans are selfish and don't care about anybody but themselves those exist too as well!
Roots should be shown in every history class in African schools.
Wow this is amazing 👏. I did my African ancestry test and Ancestry.com test and I am 97% African and I am Balanta from Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼 and Mende from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 in West Africa on my mother's side and I am Bubi from Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 and Ewondo from Cameroon 🇨🇲 on my father's side in Central Africa. I plan to visit one day, as I always wanted to know my African roots. But your story inspires me even more to know if I have relatives in Africa living today. Many blessings to you and I hope you were able to connect with some of your relatives in the African diaspora and peace and love to Gabon 🇬🇦 as well.
Thank you for sharing your story and for doing the dna test. Which company did you use? It is amazing that your family history would include a long lost ancestor whom was not heard from and probably kidnapped. Sad. Thank you for looking for him. Peace to you.
When u look at it. Salvery wasn't that long ago.
This made me cry, pls I hope there is a way you can reach out to them
Great video. I’m waiting on my DNA results. Maybe we may be related. How cool would that be.
That'd be really cool!!
You have a story, it would be an excellent thing to contact your family.
Greetings my Fang sista! This Video is everything...I have one question; Based on the fact that you already know what nation (not tribe) that you belong to, I’m intrigued to know what drove you to take a DNA test? I’d love to hear your intentionality and rationality. Give thanks
I thought some West African DNA would show up. You know, family secrets and all... lol. My maternal grandmother's origins are kind of mysterious. Her mother showed up in our village with her parents, and they spoke fang with an accent, so I thought that they had come from the north (apparently they didn't look like central Africans). I was wrong. They probably were from a neighboring tribe ;-)
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Thank you for your video, I am on Ancestry ans I was wondering if one of your matches had the user name of SEMBEV? that is me. Thank you in advance
I just checked and it seems we're not related. Take care.
@@raconte-moialice9509 Thank you for taking the time to check, i loved your videos, they have helped me already. THANK YOU
Thank you for making this video - I'm in search of finding distance relatives. Surname Saddler
Sorry always amazes me that the African cousins remembered these stories and passed them down for so long hear of the Griots in Senegal I hear can recite tribe histories so far back …. Im wondering do you know what year this ancestor might’ve been taken ? Know the oral history in Africa has no dates but wondering if their was a war going on between tribes around this time ?
Hi cousin 🙂 So I calculated that it would have been the early 1800s. I don't know about wars at that time, although my people, the Fang, are known for being warriors, so who knows what they were up to? The French were already present in the area, and were actively taking people across the Atlantic. I wish I knew more about the exact circumstances of how he disappeared
Which test did you use, 23 and me?
It was Ancestry
What test did you take
Ancestry.com
Just seeing this for the first time. I recently found out I descend from the Fang people (on my father’s side). They are originally from Guyana and I’m trying to found out how the Fang got there. Also, do you know if the Fang descend from the biblical Tribe of Mannesah?
I can't really answer your question as many Fang people believe we came from Egypt, but nothing has been proven so far.
@@raconte-moialice9509 its documented that we went into Egypt (Elephantine) after Assyrian captivity. Then we fled into Africa after conflicts with other nations
@Tony Taco im not pushing anything. Look at the customs, DNA, and history of a people and you will see who they are
And what about you mother side ?
@@moimoimoi2585 Cameroon ancestry on her side I believe. Im more concerned with Y-DNA so I didn’t look into it much
What was the name of the company you used for your DNA test?
It was Ancestry
@@raconte-moialice9509 - Thanks!
this is my first tyme seeing african american who is 100percent african
I'm an African from Gabon. I've found African American relatives though
Do they teach the slave trade in africa?? Or did you come to the states and learned that?
In my country, Gabon, they don’t teach about it in schools unfortunately, so the population is vaguely aware of it, through family stories like mine probably. But yeah, unlike countries like Senegal or Ghana, our government has made no effort to remember the people who were taken. This needs to be addressed. I personally learned a lot about slavery when I took African American Studies classes at a US college.
@@raconte-moialice9509 I'm just asking because I've asked many people from different African countries, and they never mentioned they're family members being tooken from them and placed on a boat, no family stories, no evidence it personally seems far fetched that millions of Africans were just tooken without a fight and brought to another part of the world just to be slaves, when they're were people already here that they could be enslaved instead. But hey idk the sameones who stole our history and destroyed it, are the same ones who teach us and tell us what we are, then gives us a dna test that they made that constantly changes, you personally can't trace your genealogy or your family lineage just by saliva it takes documentation all the things that were purposely destroyed. DNA is only good for tracing your immediate family like a child, mom , dad , uncle etc. U can't trace back 100s of years just with spit, I did enjoy the video thank u for the reply🤗😍
@Tony Taco I just find it crazy that such a traumatic thing happen people family being ripped apart and africans don't even teach it or talk about, don't add up,
@Tony Taco I kno black American history, here's some Wish people really knew Black American history and not from the white perspective, our ancestors built this country and made it great, contributed much more then music and dancing to this place! Let's talk about the inventions and the community's that we built that generated wealth power soo much to the point where our own government had to bomb, burn down, and flood our neighborhoods with drugs, & violence😔 they even added immigration to the civil rights package to keep us from keeping property and houses with in our family & people because they didn't want us to over power the economy. They never wanted to give us reparations, so we was gonna take by keeping the money within our own community and buying up the market, property's and business being rich in the process, so for folks who wanna talk down on black Americans know this lil bit first ✊🏾🥇🏆we suffers the most and still continued pressn forward anyway we could no matter how much they make us out to be ignorant, & dangerous I love my black American ethnic group😍🌷they need us without us America is nothing
@Tony Taco because it's just confusing to me, there's no physical evidence of the slave trade, and the numbers don't add up, I highly doubt Africans would just allow u took take millions of they family members without putting up a fight, just to gain resources that Africa already posses, the story in detail isn't rational when honestly think about it, were just program through school and pass down theory that all blacks were slaves of Africa, and Africa is poor and dirty, b
Tell me Alice! Ever heard of Nzambi,or Modimo?? (briefly)the colonial powers gave us the English version of HIM (God)..U can check this out alittle more,, sincerely your spirit has connected to your house roots, your tribal ancestors associate's with the 12 lost tribes of Bantu,or So Ni niNaNi ,chosen people,,, Welcome,home Siemi!!!👋👋👋💥🙏🙏🙏
Bonjour je suis bulu (beti/fang du Cameroun) quels est ton pseudo pour que je vois si nous sommes lié
Mbolo :-) C'est "Alice En" sur ancestry. Ok, tiens-moi au courant. J'ai trouvé quelques parents au Cameroun et en Guinée Equatoriale. Ce site est vraiment fascinant...
@@raconte-moialice9509 combien
@@raconte-moialice9509 j'ai quelques chose as vous proposez . J'aime fais qu'on s'invite pour voir nos résultats et surtout correspondances adn pour voir si on a des cousins en commun vu que le peuple ekang est le même (nous ne sommes pas liés mais avons peux être des cousins en commun). Il vous suffit de mettre mon adresse email willis_mew@yahoo.fr dans dna sharing preferences et de me donner votre email pour faire de même
@@mewmangastv9337 je ne trouve pas "dna sharing preferences" c'est ou exactement dans le site? akiba :-)
@@raconte-moialice9509 dans la page d'accueil où il présente à la fois les résultats adn et les correspondances adn il y'a le bouton paramètres qui ressemble à un boulon vous cliquez ensuite vous descendez à dna sharing preferences vous mettez mon email willis_mew@yahoo.fr.....passez moi votre email si vous voulez voir mes résultats
Hey, I'm from the diaspora and I also did the DNA test. Unlike you I didn't find hundreds of people from the motherland who shared my DNA, I found 6 with African sounding names amongst the 5000 or so who were related to me. I was shocked to find my original family members 400 years later. I immediately made contact. I tried everything for about 2 years... nothing. In year 3, I tracked down one, after the initial greetings... that was it. Again no communication. My mother said I should leave it. She said "what if they find out that you are rich".....
YOU BRUNG YOUR GREAT UNCLE BACK HOME BY TAKING THE TEST..BLESS YOU.