****UPDATE*** - as of Dec 17th 2021 - Regarding those interested in Sierra Leone Citizenship Via Descent - I just got word from a certified Tour Operator that African Ancestry Test is the only test being accepted by the Sierra Leone Government at the moment despite what the guidelines for Citizenship via Decent say but they plan on adding other companies soon....is there anyone here who completed their citizenship via a different DNA Test if so please comment here.
Greetings Square Huxtable! I would like to enligthen you about something.....I am the Social Science Practitioner that petitioned to have "Genetic Communities" recognized at Ancestry DNA! There is quite a bit more to understand about your Ancestry DNA results that pertain to th African Diaspora! I literally advocated for this in 2015 and it was implemented in 2017 of March! So glad you spoke about the " genetic community"....This is a huge accomplishment.....I would like to know when you took this test? Updates do occur over time! Thanks for sharing BUT definently more insight to give!🙏
That is part of the colonized mind. That is mental slavery because massa has made some believe the unbelievable. Our people got to read more especially now in the age of technology where hidden lies and facts can be found if you research deeper.
So I looked at the tree you showed on this video and our match so much. Where and how do I get the form to start the process? I want to be ready for the next go around. Also thank you for your reply i am so ready to make the move.
I am an Indigenous Canadian.Canada was Brutal to its Indigenous people. Our government documents state that their purpose is to "prevent savages from raising savages", so as a result, all of us over a certain age were stolen from our families as children to be hard core assimilated. That means that we were all forcibly raised by European Canadians in either horrific institutions, or white foster homes. I was stolen as soon as I was born, my mother wasn't even allowed to see me after giving birth to me. We are still missing a brother who never made it home again. We have been permitted to keep our children since 1991 or 1996, depending upon which assimilation policy you are referring to. My oldest was born in 2001, so we were allowed to keep our children. My mother wasn't allowed to raise me, her mother wasn't allowed to raise her, and her mother wasn't allowed to raise her! Other Native Canadians can go back even to seven generations! So you can imagine my hurt and Anger at being called a '$5.00 Indian', and other similar teachings that Dane Calloway (over five million views!) and his followers spread. It is all false and he knows it, of course, because it is carefully crafted, and the sources of his material often contradict what he is saying. We don't have $5.00 Indians up here, there are no Dawes rolls, and we weren't allowed to own land, get jobs, buy or sell things, etc. So no white person would sign up for that! Danes followers have gotten so full of themselves they are uttering death threats to Indigenous people on other social media! They feel Entitled to be rude, crude and Extremely Racist against Indigenous people since the Actually believe what they are taught by Dane Calloway and the others, which is that We Stole Their Land, and they Want it Back! So Dane and the others have turned Indigenous people into the bad guys, and they have to Fight us, and we Deserve it! Please call out and Report this kind of Racist Misinformation. There aren't enough of us to defend ourselves. Thank you for teaching the truth! I have a lot of love and Respect for black Americans and Canadians! Thanks
So sorry to hear about what you and your people have gone through, unfortunately that has happened and is happening on every continent colonialization was brutal vile and disgusting and the propoganda of savages was a key part in justifying it. First let me say death threats is wrong and name calling is wrong and if I saw that anywhere I would speak out against that, we can disagree without taking it to certain levels. I have a video coming up soon about the topic you're speaking of I'm assuming you're saying Dane Calloway is wrong in saying black people are indigenous to this land, but from my research that is very much true and proven scientifically there are errors in what he's saying that all black people in Americas share in that history and that is not true at all. Please note I am not familiar with all of Dane Calloways teachings so I am not saying he's right about you stole his land etc etc. I'm just speaking about the overall theme that there are black americans that are indigenous to the americas and that is a fact. Again if I see online anywhere people degrading or threatening or degrading ANYONE I WILL FIGHT AGAINST THAT but just because my ancestors weren't indigenous to the americas, I have done enough research to know there are a lot of black people that are. Please feel free on my videos of this topic to comment and point out anything that you feel is not true, I am always open to dialogue and thank you for sharing your story.
@@squarehuxtable Well thank you so much for your kind words! I have also done a lot of research into whether or not there are some blacks that are Indigenous and have found out that there aren't any. There are quite a lot of people making these claims, and I have checked out every 'fact' that I have come across, but haven't found any true ones yet. So a lot of research can look like it is true, but when you look at the sources, they are false. I am definitely open to discussion and I always love to learn! If you share your most promising information with me, I can tell you the info I have found on it. If your research is based on Dane Calloway and others of his ilk, it can look like it is true, but it isn't. I find Government sources and statistics are factual.
@@profitmakr5114 Agreed a lot of research especially on the internet can be false, I vet my sources and triple check my mom comes from the World of Academia she was a professor at prestigious Wellesley College and taught me how to do reseaarch plus I am a TV Producer by trade. Look forward to talking to you on my next video that is on this topic, it has a couple of the proof, that I have found that we can discuss. All the best!
@@squarehuxtable If you use information Not based upon any info put out by Dane Calloway or any of his kind, then I could believe it. Dane has appropriated so much from Indigenous people, including appropriating the poster of the actor Graham Green from Dances with wolves, and photoshopped an African man into it. He also has a thumbnail picture of an African tribe and is trying to pass it off as Indigenous black Americans! He has lied so many times, you cant use anything from him and be trusted as a researcher.
@@profitmakr5114 black people are not indigenous to America. Dane Calloway got it from a National Geographic History Channel. I saw the false documentary show, it’s not true.
While usually things are akin, regarding Sierra Leone, you and your sister can inherit different ethnicity estimates and different genetic groups, because when DNA is involved there is a random 50% genetic selection from both the maternal and paternal lines made to be passed down. Identical twins are usually an exception to the rule and imposes the same DNA likeness.
Thank you for explaining, I was expecting a difference in percentages but the only country on my maternal line to be on my sister's tests and not showing up on mine was surprising. But yes like you said just could be genetic selection :)
I was going to say the same thing. Ancestry explains it on their website. To me, it's weird that my siblings could inherit something from a parent that I didn't and vice versa. It almost makes me feel like I'm not even related to my own family. 👀 DNA is so complex.
@@nicolemedina7524 "DNA is so complex". Include Him and it get's easier. "I will praise Thee; for I a fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well". Psalm 139:14. "Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee..." Jeremiah 1:5. He knew what He wanted to do. APTTMH!
I find it infuriating when descendents of Africa don't claim Africa, but wish to use their nationality instead. Jamaica is a country. The US is a, country. But Africa is the source of life, our DNA. When in Jamaica, they're Africa, when in Dominican Republic, they're African, when in Haiti etc,. But when living in the US, I'm not black or, African. Anyway, we are what we are no matter how much denial. I appreciate these DNA sites because if you keep a family tree and info passed down thru generations and the comparisons are near accurate and your matches are family that's pretty much your DNA that's more than you'll get otherwise thru these companies. It can't change. We might not all like what we see but DNA is truth.
I hear you sis, it bothers me too but also a lot of people really don't know and aren't connected to history and what that history means to their present and their future, there's also all sorts of strategic roadblocks that were put in place for US to not connect the dots, not an excuse but that's why we have to connect them like your comment did :)
@@squarehuxtable So true. When I did my Ancestry and 23sndme DNA, I met family. So much hurts when we discovered who our ancestors were. In America, as elsewhere, so many admixtures from Africa, Europe, central Asia, etc. When white family members come up who are offsprings of the slave owners whose African females whether forced or consensual entertwines in our history, it's a hard pill to swallow. It's an ugly history but our people survived it.
Lol na we are not tall. It would be the hard to prove if we were. We accepted it. We owe you nothing but you rather owe us everything as long as you come here and talk down to my people
Not all sis. I’m from the US but I just did a DNA test and my results are LARGELY African! Only 4% colonizer dna 🙌🏾. But colonization did a number on most of us in the diaspora and especially in the US. I’ve always known the truth, I plan on visiting Cameroon and Angola in the next few years.
If a person said, “As white people, our DNA is very powerful” I bet that would be called racist. Double standard. “Black Power” is praised while “White Power” is considered racist. Wrong.
@@robertlouisburns why would you get mad at science. They already flex there evil powers at us. Envy and thievery. So go eles where with all that. Byeeeee. duces.
Yep, I received citizenship from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 based upon my African Ancestry test. There are very few companies that can determine tribes, however many of those can only detect dozens of tribes in Africa while African Ancestry can determine hundreds. You should apply for citizenship ASAP as the African Union is launching an African Union passport (similar to a European passport) which will allow you to travel to every African country visa free.
Thank you so much for this info!!!!! Life got in the way because I was planning on doing it this past Nov. and in a couple weeks I'll know if my work commitment goes until the beginning of May because if it doesn't April I am in Salone!!
Really great explaination of DNA testing - glad you included the Ancestry info video at the top. Really enjoyed watching your video I'm glad you went into the relation part as often these videos ignore this and it is one of the best parts of doing a DNA test for Genealogical purposes.
The problem with all of the autosomal DNA companies is that they're actually rewriting history with faulty science. According to the textbooks, because some of the tribes are genetically close, those companies can't decipher between the two and thus, default everyone into Nigerian. If you're Kru from Liiberia, you will be Nigerian. If you are Congolese, you will be Nigerian. If you are in Nigeria and are of Fula/Yoruba/igbo descent, they can't decipher between those tribes and thus will default you into Yoruba. For a virtually small amount of Americans, close to 400,000 where Nigerians were brought specifically to Virginia and most of the other enslaved were Senegambians, Sierra Leone, Congo, Angola, Benin and Mali, it's difficult to believe that people are showing up with these large "Nigerian" numbers. I've even seen people from various countries show up as Nigerian or have Nigerian blood and it's not true historically. I also find that their reference populations are inclusive of people who never really traded with the British. Yorubas and Esan traded with the Portuguese and Spanish which is why their religion is so dominant in the culture and music of Brazil, Cuba, Domican Republic and Puerto Rico. They have people confused.
Paternal DNA is YDNA women don’t have the Y chromosome they have Two X Chromosomes. The YDNA is passed down father to son is identically unless there is an actual mutation. Mutations happen less than once every 500 years. So if you have two brothers that have Different YDNA then they are half bothers with two different Fathers. Maternal DNA is Mitochondrial DNA that is not in the Nucleus of the Cell. It is passed to all your mothers children male and female. If your sibling has different MTDNA from you then there was an adoption, a step mother or a mistake at the hospital. The test AncestryDNA does is an Autosomal DNA test it is good for tracing relatives back up to 400 years. MtDNA and YDNA are good for migratory history 500-180,000 years.
It’s not just 23 & me. AncestryDNA has done the same thing. Since I had it done, my profile has changed a lot. I went from being 49% Cameroon, to 19% Cameroon… I was American indigenous, now I’m Philippines. And no longer American indigenous. I’m ordering African ancestry
The change is due to them getting more DNA samples from reference populations and more accurate, conclusive histories to confirm sample heritage, so they can make results more accurate. In other words, it’s that their data is getting more specific and accurate so your results do the same.
Mali Primarily located in: Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone Also found in: Central African Republic, Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Senegal, South Sudan
Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples Primarily located in: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Namibia, Republic of the Congo, Zambia Also found in: Botswana, Burundi, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
For the longest while I felt the same way, but really and truly they have our dna already and in these time learning our past and connecting with who my people were before trauma is so important so it was worth it for me. If your "black" and concerned with what you mentioned I would suggest African Ancestry and not Ancestry DNA they seem like the only company against selling your info and that actually care about us that's why the test is more expensive because they're not making money off of it in other ways.
Thats their main selling point" We destroy 100% of your DNA samples. We DO NOT sell or share your genetic information." At least thats what they advertise you never know with any business but I would trust them way more than the other companies
Life is too short to be worried about something like that. Plus what are they going to do with your dna ?? What makes us so special ? They probably already have it from vaccines, blood draws, fingerprints, urine test, etc. it doesn’t matter.
@@wherezmemallet4879 when our government warn our soldiers not to give up their DNA, you know it's dangerous. It can be weaponized. Notice France refused to submit to a test to prevent the possibility of Russia potentially gathering Macron's DNA. And what makes me special? Ask the Masonic order. They threatened me and said everywhere I go I'd find a Mason. I live under constant survailence as if their waiting for me to defecate gold bricks. Don't ask me why I'm so special, ask them. They can tell you when I fart
Try Livingdna and compare your African ancestry results. They show tribes but it’s not specific to mitochondria DNA, it’s autosomal so it shows all lines, not just your mother’s maternal line. It also gives your Haplotypes as well.
You are from a lineage of kings and queens, so it would be natural to gravitate to quality items. “They” learned all that stuff from us. I have felt that way since adolescences. I am a refined Afrikan Jamaican who prefers quality over quantity. I did Afrikan Ancestry and I am Tikar, Housa and Fulani found in the region of “so called” Cameroon. I will be happy when they realize that those are artificial boarder and allow us to have continental citizenship or at least citizenship in any Afrikan country of choice based on Afrikan descents. Ashé sister Queen🙏🏾💗
The difference is Autosomal DNA deals with all your ancestors in your ancestral past from both sides of mother and father as well as their ancestors put into one group to estimate frequencies into percentages that match, (This is clusters of DNA not a single strain) While accurately African African Ancestry focus on dividing dna into a single direct strain of DNA for only Patriarchal & Matriarchal lineages they don’t deal with autosomal DNA)
The African ancestry is highly expensive, especially if you are doing both parents. It is just like for everything else that is related to black people, like hair products, everything is so much more expensive, it is discouraging. Thank you for the video., Love it ❤️
It is way more expensive but I heard they dont sell your information thats why a lot of other tests are cheaper because they make their money in other ways.
None of the companies can deny black Hebrew lineage these days. I was military and they began taking our DNA in the 80s. Also, Covid was developed for certain ethnic groups and I didn’t know many dark people that died from it although some did however there were entire countries on the African continent that didn’t have one case of Covid. Yashua is greater than anything that humankind can come up with.
Senegal Primarily located in: Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal Also found in: Cape Verde, Cote D'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, South Sudan
@18:20 Sierra Leone needs to get their citizenship process in order. There are many Mende just across the border in Liberia. So if someone has results which say Mende in Liberia then they won't accept? That is silly. Truthfully we should all qualify as Krio but that is another story(both Liberia and Sierra Leone should have very easy citizenship process for folks of enslaved ancestry in the West due to their founding histories)
So true, especially nomadic tribes its hard to pinpoint them to a countries borders. Ive heard that more Afrucan countries are in negotiations with possibly offering citizenship via descent! Thx for watching!
@@squarehuxtable good luck 🤞 I already went through the process but wish it wasn't so strict considering many want to return and may not have the results needed(but again, given the founding history of Liberia and Freetown, the process should be more open)
@@squarehuxtable what they should do is base it on cousin matches via centimorgans. If you share at least 8 or more centimorgans with an African person. You should be able to apply for citizenship in that relatives country. I do think you should have to learn about the culture of the country. But then understand citizenship is a colonial concept. It's based on either Roman or British law.
@@mrhimselfalone7657 I was able to get my Sierra Leone Citizenship and connect with my Limba Tribe due to my AA DNA test. I understand what youre saying but when I went to the village I looked like everyone the characteristics of my tribe were describing my personality. I was home!
Glad you agree. I like 23 and me, but they tend to tell British and Irish people they have Congolese when it's the opposite. The reference groups were specifically designated to show Europeans their roots and it's turning into some sort of rewriting of History.
Thank you yes you're so right but since Im looking to get Sierra Leone Citizenship Via Descent they wont accept these results so I'll have to take an African Ancestry test like my sister did :)
💚So True… Enjoyed Your Vlog!!! Especially if you have family members in the military, then the government has your family’s DNA 🧬. Thank you for sharing!!
Blessings, Sister. I found that most of the people including you have almost the same results as I do. I find it hard to believe That I am in some way kin to everyone I know and a few people that I obviously do not know. Does this mean that my ancestry is extremely common or something is a miss? Whatever the case. I thank you for your videos and appreciate your candor. Blessings to you DOTK
Thanks for sharing, thats why I really recommend doing multiple tests and if you have African ancestry which you clearly do I really think African Ancestry is the most accurate. Im going to do my soon and post the results so let's see if it matches up with what Ancestry DNA says! But best case scenario we're cousins, hi fam! LOL
You got it; knowledge is Power and they Do Not what us to have this Knowing! Our people have been asleep for 400yrs but NOW we do not want to wake! The Word of our LORD God of Israel said that we need to be ready for his coming. The Words are for us. Here is the thing; we claim all the unnecessary names of Colony rather than finding out who we are as a PEOPLE. We can never win the battle if we are divided so until we woke; our feet will know no peace. I thank you for the work you are doing and what you plan to do in the next moments. I will stay in touch with you on this journey of knowing. Bless
Aw man I feel discouraged now. I first took my test with 23andme & was excited to have found some relatives but now I got my results from MyHeritage & they look a bit different. So I’m confused 😩 I’d like to take a test with African ancestry but it’s so pricey 😣 one day 🤞🏾
Aww noo sorry you feel discouraged, I know it can be a frustrating journey but the fact that you've taken multiple tests I think will help you in the long run, I wish there was ONE test that could tell us everything. African Ancestry is pricey lol
Myheritage uses fewer groups which is why your results differ. For example if you got "Kenyan" that's not exactly reasonable if you had ancestors effected by the Atlantic slave trade, however it's not totally "wrong" either. Kenya was part of the Bantu expansion. Bantu people originated thousands of years ago in Cameroon or the border of Cameroon and Nigeria. They spraedi to Central,East, and South Africa. Some got trafficked to the Americas. From the Congo river region. This is why you may get Kenyan on Myheritage.
Also Myheritage does not to my knowledge have a number of West African countries. They have Nigeria and Sierra Leone. When a tests lacks samples the algorithm just puts you into the closest panel available. But when they get more samples it may change. Another issue is migration. As an example AncestryDNA. Cannot fully distinguish "Benin & Togo" ancestry from Ghanaian or Nigerian depending on the "tribe". Ewe people claim to have migrated from Nigeria to Togo and Ghana. So now Ewe get results placing them in Benin & Togo and Ivory Coast & Ghana. Rather than Eweland, because technically there is no independent Eweland. Yoruba fall under Nigeria and Benin. The AncestryDNA test will not necessarily just place all Yoruba in one country. They cannot put Fulani in one country because they are nomadic. However they are concentrated in Guinea Conakry,Mali,Senegal, and the Gambia.
My sister i would like to thank you for sharing i am was born in Jamaica and hearing you were born from Jamaican parents it gave me my answer nice woman
African ancestry only looks at your maternal line, like you said. This is a tiny tiny fraction of your overall ancestry (10 generations yields over 1000 ancestors, so going back ~200 years, you get 0.1%). AncestryDNA will give you the broader picture of your entire ancestry. The upside of African Ancestry is they have more detailed samples to compare with, but they only compare a tiny fraction of your dna to these samples.
Im about to do a part two to this Yes youre right but I think both are necessary I plan to do 4 African Ancestry tests to get the full understanding AA was able to tell me Im from the Limba tribe something I doubt AncestryDNA will ever be able to tell me :)
@@squarehuxtable Do you have experience with "Living DNA"? You can upload your DNA from an ancestry or 23andme test for a small fee. Apparently they breakdown African ancestry to fairly good detail including tribal origins. I'd like to try that one myself, since my maternal/paternal lines are very likely not African (regardless of my African ancestry)
Every human on this planet is mixed raced. There is no such thing as a pure blooded Human. If you want a pure blooded Hominid (Homo-Sapien) you would need to clone a test from a cavemans bone. The DNA information doesn't change you. You're still you. Its genome coding of Junk DNA that holds. Anything under 3% is Junk DNA. So your mutation could be for instant (CYMA1.-A2 or R1b2-AC) these mutations could match with Ashanknazi or what ever because that person with the mutations you have could hold Ashanknazi Junk DNA so it gets allocated too yourself. These Test need too be "Dumbed" down as Genetics is very confusing. Trust me there is main branches of ancestors and there is then millions if not billions of mutations attached too those trees. Hope this helps pal. Peace from Scotland ☝🏼
I think the truth is that they are still working to build a accurate sample of people to test. They try to get people whose parents and grandparents are all from that same place. Then they use that DNA.
Yes, thanks for telling me that!! My friend just showed that to me the problem is I don't think that will qualify for citizenship since Sierra Leone isn't listed on my report...but I will find out and update everyone :)
@@squarehuxtable it may be exhausting, but if you took AncestryDNA. 1. Go to where it let's you customize the centimorgans. Start at 6 and go up. You will have to really look at a lot of names. Make not of any last names which look unusual. 2. If you find any that are unusual where it says ethnicity look to see if they lack European or Native American admixture. Because Africans who remained in Africa did not mix with Europeans too much or with Native and chances are that they are Africans 3. So now you've got matches who only have African results with names that are probably African 4. Look those names up to see where they are from and possibly what tribe (s) have them.
Now here is where you can run into an issue. Many African immigrants have married African Americans. You could potentially match with a "Halfrican" but not necessarily via their African parent. This is complicated by a country or in a country like Sierra Leone. I have matches who are part Mende. But I don't know if I match their Mende side or their African American side. I do know that I have Mali, Ivory Coast and Ghana and Senegal. My part Sierra Leonean matches have that too much higher than I do.
When African Ancestry had the autosomal test the results were reportedly extremely vague as well. 23andme has general regions but they have improved over time. Ancestry DNA I think is better for Black Americans to make connections.
With my 23andme results set at 50% confidence level I'm 45.4% Nigerian out of 86.8% of me that is African. But this lowers as I increase the confidence level to 90%. Then I'm 16.6% Nigerian. This is still higher than anything else. Ancestry had me at 46% Nigerian out of 88% African with a range of 56-37%. But now they took 6% off. Not sure what they did with it. The new range is 47-27%
I would love to do the the one you did, but I in the UK...I'm wondering if it will be as detailed? Also if because they are not centralised labs...if there will be any difference? I did "My Heritage" I'm not too confident in them! Any advice?
I defintly recommend doing more than one test and comparing the results. I havent researched My Heritage enough to give advice but if you tell me what you what to learn from the tests I might be able to advise. for example people with African roots to learn the best about those I think African Ancestry the only reason why I did Ancestry DNA is I wanted to know my percentage of African which African Ancestry doesnt tell you. So now that I know Im 91% African I can go do all my African Ancestry tests and find the specific tribes :) Also I dont think the centralized labs will make a difference, hope this response helps in some way :0)
Love the detailed video thanks for sharing ….. when I saw your results I was thinking how Similar your results were to mine and was wondering if you were Jamaican …most Jamaicans know and realise their ancestry is African as it’s taught in schools … maybe those who never knew ent to school done think they are of African decent 🙄 but when you said you had a sierra Leone tribal affiliation I thought maybe not….. most Jamaicans have a Nigerian Cameroon Congo or Ghanaian tribal group…. my son also has a large amount of Sierra Leone dna which he inherited from his father …. his father never knew he had Sierra Leone at all as his father is from north east Africa ….. it goes to show how people think they are native to a region but their ancestors travelled …. I am at the moment researching the original map boundaries tribal regions and tribes of the west African region. Because the present boundaries don’t really help in explaining tribal affiliations…. As dna states a person can be born and raised in a country but that doesn’t make them native as people migrate and move around…. Eg a chinaman born and raised in Spain is never a Spaniard…..When I did my ancestry dna I ran my raw dna via gedmatch which is free and much more accurate than any dna testing company and it aligns your dna to a specific tribe according to your raw data this makes sense ….. a lot of sense as when I researched the tribe it showed me I can see the family resemblance clearly….. I just find that African ancestry doesn’t give people value for money at those extortionate prices …. I have seen many African Americans take the African ancestry only to be told that their haplogroup is 100% European which is understandable due to the extreme level of slavery that occurred in North America….
Hi Family!! Agreed 100% Im doing the same thing looking at our original borders before the colonizer made the borders we see today. the only thing I happy about is am 93% African I believe in One Africa we are all one yes we have different tribes and lineages and we should know those too but so the past doesnt keep on repeating itself we have to understand we are one and to be unified in order to defeat those who are trying to tear us asunder :)
1. Ethnicity = tribe. 2. Bantu is more like a language group similar to how Europeans have the Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages groups etc. So for example: 1. Luhya, Kikuyu, Kamba, Kisii, (East Africa), Bemba, Luba, (Central Africa), Shona, Xhosa, Sena, Chewa, Zulu, Venda, (southern Africa) are examples of ethnic groups that fall under the 'Bantu' language group. 2. Maasai, Kalenjin, Luo (East Africa) are examples of ethnic groups falling under the 'Nilotic' (Nilotes) language group. 3. Somalis, Amhara, Tigrays (Horn of Africa) are example of ethnic groups that fall under the 'Cushitic' (Cushites) language group. Unfortunately i am not familiar with West African language groups.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this detailed explanation, yes this is absolutely true but I've always wondered does Bantu, Nilotic and Cushitic span farther than linguistics and are they just the larger grouping of our tribe seeing as their are aesthetic similarities and difference amongst the three? Also I've been on a quest to find out what tribes under Western Bantu People so far just says they are part of the same group who inhabit Eastern and Southern Africa...
@@squarehuxtable Examples of Western Bantu would be the original Kongo people (from which the Europeans took the name Congo for the huge colony and now country that includes non-Kongo ethnic groups), Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Chokwe, Herero. Research the peoples of modern day countries, Angola, Congo (Brazzaville), Gabon, Equatorial Guinea for examples of Western Bantus. The region was involved and affected by the Atlantic Slave Trade.
I am an african. Here is what I know about Jamaica DNA. The Jamaicans where Africans taken for slavery and was been taking to the West. Half way to the West, there was abolition of slave trade so, the where abandoned in Jamaica. That's how they settled in Jamaica. Same thing with Haiti etc.
Yes many of us in the caribbean were brought over in the slave trade, I dont think it was abolished and abandoned though the sory is the most unruly enslaved people that they couldnt tame were let off in Jamaica...thats why Jamaicans act the way we do lol
Hello Square Huxtable. Congratulations on your DNA "ethnicity estimates." Unfortunately, I am not aware of any genetic testing company that can definitively prove scientifically that I am a biological relative to a specific African tribe or community. For example, my African Ancestry determined that my Y chromosome polymorphism is 100% Yoruba People. HOWEVER, Yoruba is a "cultural" identity NOT biological. There scientific analysis of my Y chromosome is no deferent than Ancestry DNA'S geographical "ethnicity estimates.' In fact, Ancestry DNA will tell you that our DNA looks similar to samples in their reference panel.
This is a misinterpretation of how African Ancestry works. African Ancestry is identifying ONE ancestor from about 500 years ago through an mtDNA test- so the percentage could very well not be significant enough to be visible through the ancestry DNA test, which is a microarray-based autosomal DNA test.
I am black and from Jamaica. My white dna is between 10 and 20% and I am very interested in it. I must admit that my interest may be because white white English ancestry is from a prominent English family. So, most of my family tree consists of white people, although this is also down to a lack of records for my black ancestry. According to Myheritage, I'm in a genetic group comprised on descendants of the first colonisers/settlers of the US. I have Mayflower ancestors. This means that I am distant cousins of US Presidents, Jimmy Carter, entertainers like Catherine Hepburn etc. I'm also a (very) distant step ancestor is a king. I am quite fascinated by this.
Glad you were able to find your roots!! But your 90 and 80% probably has some royalty in it dont get caught up in the propaganda they sold us there is powerful amazing ancestors on your other side as well :)
My largest percentage is in Nigeria and the Congo. For Sierra Leon I have like 6% would that be enough? It's terrible be have to go through this classified as AFRICAN americans
Just subscribed blessing to see our people of all ages awaken to the truth of history and Hebrewism...I’m sure or maybe not u hv heard of Ron Dalton Jr Hebrews to Negroes book series and videos...teowt ministries and Dante Forston...they hit on all levels of the diaspora and African history connected to American history...look forward to more vids from you younglady seek Yahshua salvation is in him...shalom
After seeing your last video about Sierra Leone, I bought AfricanAncestry test...wasn't happy about the price, but I stopped being cheap and did it. I already had results from AncestryDNA saying I am 37% Nigerian. African Ancestry came through was some suuuper bogus results - claiming I match 100% with the Lyela tribe in Burkina Faso...nah
Hey Teddy, Did you do your paternal side?Why do you think thats super bogus? Because it doesnt match with the Nigeria? Remember AA has way for African data sets where Ancestry groups a bunch of countries as Nigeria.
The tests are completely different and she is not explaining them well. The Ancestry is autosomal test inheritance from both mum and dad, and it's only for about 500yrs. The African ancestry for female is pure maternal line as using maternal line for over 5000yrs so both of your result are correct.
It was a personal story my close friend told me if it was my story I would disclose more details...I doubt you'll find it on the web its not something they would advertise
I am glad that she did this video, however I have a slight issue. If look at the holy scriptures, the Most High said, "We are the (seed) of our Fathers.". That's really what we should be doing. Then,the maternal could be just FYI. *SIDE NOTE - I know many that are in S.L. Ghana and other W.A. Countries. The Diaspora is going home.
@@squarehuxtable I'm so curious. Not asking for names. Curious about 23 and Me and all these companies... I'm always interested in Human History and evolution and when I watch scientific lectures on ancient DNA, sometimes they will bring up these companies and they rarely have anything positive to say. They always claim that these companies are over-promising results and even pushing some outdated concepts like "The Races". Geneticists only talk about populations. These tests will also leave out information that isn't relevant to the narrative, like how closely related you might be to people in the opposite side of the globe. We all have way more in common than not. But that's not nearly as exciting as hearing that you are unique and one of a kind. Love your attitude. Very... I don't know 🤔 You actually remind me of a good Judy of mine from back in the day. Jewish girl. But for some reason you remind me of her. Thanks for responding. 🙏🥳🌈
@@squarehuxtable 65% of all slaves taken to the Americas were of Bantu origin. There’s a misconception by many descendants of Slaves that majority of slaves were from Ghana, DNA has proven that to be wrong, because Ghana was only a slave holding facility. Your ancestors were of Bantu origin.
Yes I know that I know that we're a nomadic people and we reside all over the continent and like you mentioned scattered in all corners of the World. I've been studying Bantu people since I shot this video. I was just wondering how the DNA Test identified it as Bantu and not Angola is all :)
@@squarehuxtable It sometimes confusing to some people. The Bantus are divided into three groups, Western, Southern and Eastern Bantus. Cameroon was and is the homeland of the Bantu before the great migration began. So when they say “Western Bantu” they are telling you that your ancestors came from the Bantu people who resides starting from Cameroon to Namibia as you can see on the map of the Bantu provided to you by the DNA agency.
@@squarehuxtable Bantu states include: the Kingdom of Kongo, Anziku Kingdom, Kingdom of Ndongo, the Kingdom of Matamba the Kuba Kingdom, the Lunda Empire, the Luba Empire, Mbunda Kingdom, Yeke Kingdom, Kasanje Kingdom, Empire of Kitara, Butooro, Bunyoro, Buganda kingdom, kingdom of Bamum, Busoga, Rwanda, Burundi, Ankole, the Kingdom of Mpororo, the Kingdom of Igara, the Kingdom of Kooki, the Kingdom of Karagwe, Swahili city states, the Mutapa Empire, the Zulu Kingdom, the Ndebele Kingdom, Mthethwa Empire, Tswana city states, Mapungubwe, Kingdom of Eswatini, the Kingdom of Butua, Maravi, Danamombe, Khami, Naletale, Kingdoms of Zimbabwe and Mozambique and the Rozwi Empire. These are the Empires and kingdoms the Bantus built during the Bantu expansion.
The one Coast that you're showing the west coast of Africa was known as the slave Coast, that is where the slave trade was happening. A lot of us our ancestors fled Jerusalem when wrong attacked they fled into Africa to the northern part to the center of Africa until the west coast of Africa which is slave Coast.
Have you watched my video Africa is the Promised Land it has vintage maps of this region that has the Kingdom of Juda on it and the slave coast right below it a map from 1747 on the Library of Congress Website!
Yeah sis, most of the Jamaicans are still in their heads about who they truly are, and this goes for the other Islands and countries where slaves were taken. We are NOT what they want us to claim. It is time for us to know the truth about who we really are and this truth does not STOP in "Africa" so we need to read the Bible and understand the words therein. Bless
I like 23andMe, I believe that they are the most accurate of the dna companies available today. I would change their dna too if they do not want to accept the truth. The customers are always right. So be it. As far as African ancestry is concerned, I would fully support them if they will break down how many markers they test and how accurate is their result according to the amount of markers they test. In other words, where are their white papers that other companies submit to the public. After all they charge more than 3 times the amount other companies charge and give you about 1/3 the information. For what they charge they should answer all your questions for that piece of paper they give you.
There is nowhere I've seen state that 23 and Me would be more accurate with African DNA, I would doubt that more than African Ancestry??? you might be talking about other regions then you might be correct. Whatever you prefer but I don't like their business practices whatsoever so I would personally never ever use them :) We can agree to disagree that the customer is always right that defeats the purpose of DNA. If everyone just picked and chose what region they preferred that wouldn't be science.
Neither can African Ancestry give you accurate or near accurate tribes. They will not even tell you how many dna markers that they test to come up with their results. I have asked numerous times and they refuse to tell me. The only thing that they give you is a piece of paper. In other words you take their word and they do not give you any science that support your results. The only way you can prove me wrong is to contact them and they give you the answer because they have yet to answer me and I wrote to them directly. In fact I even asked the question on African Ancestry RUclips page and they have never respond. They respond to others but not to my question. And for the amount of money I paid, I believe that I deserved at least a curtesy respond. When I emailed my question, they referred me to some other sources about dna but not the number of markers that they test and how many markers need to be tested in order to get whatever percentage of accuracy.
You are so right, they are!! A lot of African tribes are!!!! I'm Limba not the same tribe as Lemba :) We're learning that Israelite is really just the name that replaced Bantu :)
It is extremely important that we understand DNA markers as a people, because DNA markers are what connect us to the Truth. These ancestry companies know this so it makes me question the validity of them. The biblical Isrealites of Scripture had a specific DNA marker, the amazing thing is that there is only one group of people who share that exact same DNA marker. Also, check the Transatlantic Slavetrade name database, the original one, you'll see that all of the slaves, man, woman and child, had Yah in their name, brings new meaning to 2 Chronicles 7:14....
I totally understand questioning the validity, Im not 100%sold either but it told me who my cousins were that I wouldnt have known but my mom(verified it) and told me certain things that are a good start to go hunt in other ways for the truth. I will never solely really on one method to tell me who I am :) Yes I've seen that database a lot of Yahs, yayas and Original biblical names :)
The Israelites had a specific DNA marker? Name it. And go to Slave Voyagers name database. I haven't seen one name with yah in the database. Tell me where I can see the original one.
@@UICeinnselaig, because you have not seen the original documents. Research the DNA markers. Your not ready to have a discussion about this, because you have no idea what happened and what is going on.
@@craigjoseph9374 I've not seen the original Doc's. So I'll ask you again how did you see them. And by the way slave voyagers database is the collection of all known documents collated and organised into the resource. I'm not ready to have a discussion about this? I asked you for the specific DNA marker. Otherwise how can I possibly research your claim of a isolated marker. I could research the haplogroups of Israel and western Asia. Which I have many times. Not once have I come across any information of a group of people having an isolated marker. So don't tell me I'm not ready to have a discussion when you have ignored my questions. Why do I have to do the research? If you know of this DNA marker it should be no problem naming it. If you've seen the document should be no problem saying how you managed to. So put up or shut up.
@@UICeinnselaig, my apologies if I offended you. If I found them, so can you. When you search for it, it will mean that much more to you, because of the time and effort you put in. My words have pointed you in the right direction, dig and sort through ALL of the lies.
In jamaica only about 38 people are left from native taino /arawak Jamaicans,,.from a [population of 3 .3 million people.aprox 98 % are Africans. Facts.
There were DARK-skinned and light-skinned Europeans deported to the Americas (North, Carribean, central etc), especially to Jamaica. They kept their European names. And as you said there were indigenous “black” people there. You seem to reduce their part of the population to a small portion, but based on which source or data? Human migrations are not “simple” and do not necessarily correspond to what we have been told… I am a little amazed at how people dismiss this or that as “not true” or “not possible”. There is MUCH more to history than we think there is and I feel that African Americans (who actually in some cases may have nothing African in their bloodline) and for who “black” would be more accurate, have a tendency to simplify things by “eliminating” possibilities due to their vision of history.
Yes and no, Bantu is also a people and those people speak Bantu languages it has been watered down to be seen as just a language but I look at it as a bloodline :)
Yes yes they are the original israelites or people from the bible so are alot of us, 12 tribes!! But funny you said that, that's the tribe I thought at first but the tribe in Sierra Leone it said my maternal line is from is Limba not Lembe I haven't found any connections between the two.
@@squarehuxtable it's not that simple. 1) in order to establish that Balemba were Jews. Geneticists made an assumption that the Jews in modern Israel were not converts themselves 2) next they assumed Aaron was a historic person whose DNA would be shared by his male descendants. After doing a rather shallow survey and finding many Jews with the surname Cohan or Kahn were relatively closely related. They said ah ha! We have found the priestly line and finding that in the Balemba they concluded they indeed migrated from West Asia to Africa.
But here is where it falls apart. The lineage that the Jews of modern Israel and Balemba share is called haplogroup J. Jews are not the only ones with J Greeks have it so do Ethiopians. So do Arabs. There is J1 and J2. The mutations found in Cohan or Kahn people so-called CMH are found in J1 and J2. J split in two long before Aaron would have lived.
Then you have the Bible itself which says that after Israel was exiles by the Assyrians. The Assyrians let a priest come back to convert the people who were sent to replace the Israelites. The priests of those people belong to an E lineage not J. There are many lineages separating E and J. It goes A, BT, CT,DE. B split from CT. C from DE. Leaving CF. Everything from C to T excluding D and E is basically non-African. D split into D1 and D2. They found D1 originally outside Africa. But recently they found a D lineage in west Africa. So now, C split off from F. This leaves F as the ancestor of G,H,IJ,K. I and J split. Leaving K as ancestor of L,M,M,NO,P. N and O split. O by the way is very typical of Chinese men but also the Malagasy. K is also the ancestor of T. P is the ancestor of Q and R. C and Q are the most common Native American male lineages. You can have those and not be Native American though as well. R is the most common in Western Europe. But one R lineage is characteristic of Chadic speakers.
AA men have E(E1b1a) specifically E-M2,I which is European, European R more so than Chadic. We also have various A lines including A00,we have B we also have E2. There are too many lines for us to be all descendants of Abraham. No one has dug old Abe up to be able to see who does or does not match him.
Is there Native DNA sites in Africa id prefer to only find out which tribe on the continent I'm not interested in others nations outside the continent 🇯🇲❤️ I already know I'm black of African decent I don't care other places
Great question I have yet to see native African dna sites but I will research, but from what I researched African Ancestry will be better for you than any other test I mentioned :)
Black is a color, we are so called black men and women. The people of Jamaica are from the tribe of Benjamin which is one of the 12 tribes. You can do your own research there were people out here that are talking about and I don't mean on street corners I'm talking about on the internet.
Hey my militant sista❤🖤💚😉. The motherland is heavy in my spirit. Havent took dna test but definitely just trying to touch mother land.so much is not well with west and i am one that wont even pay attention to slave master beast dna that may be there . i know the African dominated. ❤❤❤
I have done both and both are always updating your dna especially ancestry. I found 23 and me more accurately. I love everything you are teaching on. You have peaked my interest in getting dual citizenship
From my research Mende are one of the largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone...someone asked if them being Mende qualified them for Sierra Leone citizenship and all I said is no. For the record where are they from?
@@squarehuxtable The Mande are originally from whats modern day Mali and Mauritania, they were the most powerful and influential West Afrikan tribe with the largest dynastic empires of West Afrika.
My subscriber asked a question about the Mende tribe not the Mande so I think you misunderstood but thank you for watching and for sharing your thoughts :)
Glad you like them dont think I could get a 23 and me test though sont trust the integrity of the company whatsoever...also people were telling me that for Africans its not accurate...I love the info I got from Ancestry but i still dont trust it compared to what African Ancestry can tell me
@@squarehuxtable I totally understand and what ever people told you from my own eyes people that was from there in Africa born in Africa in the tribe that they received in 23 and me was very accurate I also receive the fulani tribe and 2 day after on ancestry I found 3 fulani cousin that i didn't know I have
@@squarehuxtable 23amdme has been accurate for Africans from what I've seen plus West African Ghanaian, Liberian & Sierra Leonean Ghana (7+ regions) Liberia (6+ regions) Sierra Leone Ashanti people - NEW Ewe, Fon, Ga-Dangme, & Fante peoples - NEW Mende people - NEW Temne & Limba peoples - NEW Peoples of Liberia - NEW they already use Mende people - NEW Temne & Limba peoples - NEW to determine if you have Salone in you.
Tribe? Do they provide a true ancestry tree with family names, etc? I ask because l’ve paper traced my ancestry in America and onto Canada with names, dates, etc. Marriages, births, deaths, military records. What record keeping is Africa using to connect all these people over here with so called 52% Nigerian blood with their Nigerian family? What viable information is being given?
Looks like the Nigerian and Cameroonian region suffered the brunt of slavery and human trafficking by the British, Dutch, Spaniards and Portuguese and Danes. Those countries owe reparations to Afrikan Americans and other blacks in the Western Hemisphere.
I like your videos your presentation is delicate but to the point,And I love your voice .but DNA results 🤔 ,Would you ask a burglar to cut your keys ?,🤨
HAHAHA you made me literally laugh out loud!!!! You made a great point but in that way of thinking we would have to take a look at where we work, what dollar we spend and a lot of other choices in our lives. I use what I can to get the knowledge that I need, whether its their tools or ours...Also thats why I say African Ancestry is the best for African Diaspora, it is owned and controlled by us. But very great point hahaha!
@@squarehuxtable I knew you was Jamaican just by looking at your face, Jamaican women have very similar features just like the same way Somali woman have very similar features it's easy to spot them out. No I'm not Jamaican btw
OK just so you know for kicks and giggles here and all seriousness by the whim I mean new kicks and giggles I shouldn’t say that. The Lumba tribe is the biblical tribe of Levi so you’re related to the ancient Hebrew Israelites not the people, seven Jews those of converts fr
I'm sure a person did this, 😂 imagine someone took a African Ancesty dna test to see how much and where their African dna lies, because they look "ethnic." Then they find out they have 0% all across the board 😂
@@nicolebell8184 Wow! But I'm guessing some ppl may just want confirmation of something. If your hopes was to not have African dna you got your money's worth lol. If vice versa, then that would bite.
I went into this looking for answers, but at the same time with no expectations either. I was really shocked by the results I had gotten, because the Middle East never crossed my mind.
I do understand African Ancestry gives results of the Mother. They say it's done that way because 90 or 94% of time it goes back to Africa. Father on other hand typically will be Africa 60% of the time. I don't recall but, did you show Mom in this vid? I ask because I'm assuming based off African's test your Mother must look like a typical Middle Eastern person? Side bar it's sad knowing Father's side hit only 60% due to the European 40% potential carrying over that dna due to uhhmm, let's say late night visits to the slave quarters 😡😔 To be honest, I want to do African Ancestry but they have to calm down on their pricing (no typo I meant calm lol.) Even their specials are high 😂🤑
****UPDATE*** - as of Dec 17th 2021 - Regarding those interested in Sierra Leone Citizenship Via Descent - I just got word from a certified Tour Operator that African Ancestry Test is the only test being accepted by the Sierra Leone Government at the moment despite what the guidelines for Citizenship via Decent say but they plan on adding other companies soon....is there anyone here who completed their citizenship via a different DNA Test if so please comment here.
Greetings Square Huxtable! I would like to enligthen you about something.....I am the Social Science Practitioner that petitioned to have "Genetic Communities" recognized at Ancestry DNA! There is quite a bit more to understand about your Ancestry DNA results that pertain to th African Diaspora! I literally advocated for this in 2015 and it was implemented in 2017 of March! So glad you spoke about the " genetic community"....This is a huge accomplishment.....I would like to know when you took this test? Updates do occur over time! Thanks for sharing BUT definently more insight to give!🙏
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My matriarch DNA was traced back to Cameroon. How do I gain my citizenship in Cameroon?
That is part of the colonized mind. That is mental slavery because massa has made some believe the unbelievable.
Our people got to read more especially now in the age of technology where hidden lies and facts can be found if you research deeper.
So I looked at the tree you showed on this video and our match so much. Where and how do I get the form to start the process? I want to be ready for the next go around. Also thank you for your reply i am so ready to make the move.
I am an Indigenous Canadian.Canada was Brutal to its Indigenous people. Our government documents state that their purpose is to "prevent savages from raising savages", so as a result, all of us over a certain age were stolen from our families as children to be hard core assimilated. That means that we were all forcibly raised by European Canadians in either horrific institutions, or white foster homes. I was stolen as soon as I was born, my mother wasn't even allowed to see me after giving birth to me. We are still missing a brother who never made it home again.
We have been permitted to keep our children since 1991 or 1996, depending upon which assimilation policy you are referring to.
My oldest was born in 2001, so we were allowed to keep our children.
My mother wasn't allowed to raise me, her mother wasn't allowed to raise her, and her mother wasn't allowed to raise her! Other Native Canadians can go back even to seven generations!
So you can imagine my hurt and Anger at being called a '$5.00 Indian', and other similar teachings that Dane Calloway (over five million views!) and his followers spread. It is all false and he knows it, of course, because it is carefully crafted, and the sources of his material often contradict what he is saying.
We don't have $5.00 Indians up here, there are no Dawes rolls, and we weren't allowed to own land, get jobs, buy or sell things, etc. So no white person would sign up for that!
Danes followers have gotten so full of themselves they are uttering death threats to Indigenous people on other social media! They feel Entitled to be rude, crude and Extremely Racist against Indigenous people since the Actually believe what they are taught by Dane Calloway and the others, which is that We Stole Their Land, and they Want it Back! So Dane and the others have turned Indigenous people into the bad guys, and they have to Fight us, and we Deserve it! Please call out and Report this kind of Racist Misinformation. There aren't enough of us to defend ourselves.
Thank you for teaching the truth! I have a lot of love and Respect for black Americans and Canadians! Thanks
So sorry to hear about what you and your people have gone through, unfortunately that has happened and is happening on every continent colonialization was brutal vile and disgusting and the propoganda of savages was a key part in justifying it. First let me say death threats is wrong and name calling is wrong and if I saw that anywhere I would speak out against that, we can disagree without taking it to certain levels. I have a video coming up soon about the topic you're speaking of I'm assuming you're saying Dane Calloway is wrong in saying black people are indigenous to this land, but from my research that is very much true and proven scientifically there are errors in what he's saying that all black people in Americas share in that history and that is not true at all. Please note I am not familiar with all of Dane Calloways teachings so I am not saying he's right about you stole his land etc etc. I'm just speaking about the overall theme that there are black americans that are indigenous to the americas and that is a fact. Again if I see online anywhere people degrading or threatening or degrading ANYONE I WILL FIGHT AGAINST THAT but just because my ancestors weren't indigenous to the americas, I have done enough research to know there are a lot of black people that are. Please feel free on my videos of this topic to comment and point out anything that you feel is not true, I am always open to dialogue and thank you for sharing your story.
@@squarehuxtable Well thank you so much for your kind words! I have also done a lot of research into whether or not there are some blacks that are Indigenous and have found out that there aren't any. There are quite a lot of people making these claims, and I have checked out every 'fact' that I have come across, but haven't found any true ones yet. So a lot of research can look like it is true, but when you look at the sources, they are false. I am definitely open to discussion and I always love to learn! If you share your most promising information with me, I can tell you the info I have found on it.
If your research is based on Dane Calloway and others of his ilk, it can look like it is true, but it isn't. I find Government sources and statistics are factual.
@@profitmakr5114 Agreed a lot of research especially on the internet can be false, I vet my sources and triple check my mom comes from the World of Academia she was a professor at prestigious Wellesley College and taught me how to do reseaarch plus I am a TV Producer by trade. Look forward to talking to you on my next video that is on this topic, it has a couple of the proof, that I have found that we can discuss. All the best!
@@squarehuxtable If you use information Not based upon any info put out by Dane Calloway or any of his kind, then I could believe it. Dane has appropriated so much from Indigenous people, including appropriating the poster of the actor Graham Green from Dances with wolves, and photoshopped an African man into it. He also has a thumbnail picture of an African tribe and is trying to pass it off as Indigenous black Americans! He has lied so many times, you cant use anything from him and be trusted as a researcher.
@@profitmakr5114 black people are not indigenous to America. Dane Calloway got it from a National Geographic History Channel. I saw the false documentary show, it’s not true.
While usually things are akin, regarding Sierra Leone, you and your sister can inherit different ethnicity estimates and different genetic groups, because when DNA is involved there is a random 50% genetic selection from both the maternal and paternal lines made to be passed down. Identical twins are usually an exception to the rule and imposes the same DNA likeness.
Thank you for explaining, I was expecting a difference in percentages but the only country on my maternal line to be on my sister's tests and not showing up on mine was surprising. But yes like you said just could be genetic selection :)
I was going to say the same thing. Ancestry explains it on their website. To me, it's weird that my siblings could inherit something from a parent that I didn't and vice versa. It almost makes me feel like I'm not even related to my own family. 👀 DNA is so complex.
@@nicolemedina7524 "DNA is so complex". Include Him and it get's easier.
"I will praise Thee; for I a fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well". Psalm 139:14.
"Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee..." Jeremiah 1:5.
He knew what He wanted to do. APTTMH!
I find it infuriating when descendents of Africa don't claim Africa, but wish to use their nationality instead. Jamaica is a country. The US is a, country. But Africa is the source of life, our DNA. When in Jamaica, they're Africa, when in Dominican Republic, they're African, when in Haiti etc,. But when living in the US, I'm not black or, African. Anyway, we are what we are no matter how much denial. I appreciate these DNA sites because if you keep a family tree and info passed down thru generations and the comparisons are near accurate and your matches are family that's pretty much your DNA that's more than you'll get otherwise thru these companies. It can't change. We might not all like what we see but DNA is truth.
I hear you sis, it bothers me too but also a lot of people really don't know and aren't connected to history and what that history means to their present and their future, there's also all sorts of strategic roadblocks that were put in place for US to not connect the dots, not an excuse but that's why we have to connect them like your comment did :)
@@squarehuxtable So true. When I did my Ancestry and 23sndme DNA, I met family. So much hurts when we discovered who our ancestors were. In America, as elsewhere, so many admixtures from Africa, Europe, central Asia, etc. When white family members come up who are offsprings of the slave owners whose African females whether forced or consensual entertwines in our history, it's a hard pill to swallow. It's an ugly history but our people survived it.
Lol na we are not tall. It would be the hard to prove if we were. We accepted it. We owe you nothing but you rather owe us everything as long as you come here and talk down to my people
Not all sis. I’m from the US but I just did a DNA test and my results are LARGELY African! Only 4% colonizer dna 🙌🏾. But colonization did a number on most of us in the diaspora and especially in the US. I’ve always known the truth, I plan on visiting Cameroon and Angola in the next few years.
Absolutely we're from Caribbean island where are the DNA test for that🙏
"As Black people our DNA is very powerful" - say it louder!!!!!!
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TRIBE OF JUDAH DNA IS POWERFUL
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If a person said, “As white people, our DNA is very powerful” I bet that would be called racist. Double standard. “Black Power” is praised while “White Power” is considered racist. Wrong.
@@robertlouisburns why would you get mad at science. They already flex there evil powers at us. Envy and thievery. So go eles where with all that. Byeeeee. duces.
Yep, I received citizenship from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 based upon my African Ancestry test. There are very few companies that can determine tribes, however many of those can only detect dozens of tribes in Africa while African Ancestry can determine hundreds. You should apply for citizenship ASAP as the African Union is launching an African Union passport (similar to a European passport) which will allow you to travel to every African country visa free.
Thank you so much for this info!!!!! Life got in the way because I was planning on doing it this past Nov. and in a couple weeks I'll know if my work commitment goes until the beginning of May because if it doesn't April I am in Salone!!
Yall are blowing my mind. I dreamed these results could translate to citizenship, I just didnt realize IT WAS ALREADY HAPPENING!
23anduses Temne and Mende in their reference panel.
Sorry I meant 23andme uses them
@@mrhimselfalone7657 To my knowledge 23andMe does not identity African tribes. Just regions.
Really great explaination of DNA testing - glad you included the Ancestry info video at the top. Really enjoyed watching your video I'm glad you went into the relation part as often these videos ignore this and it is one of the best parts of doing a DNA test for Genealogical purposes.
Thx for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!
The problem with all of the autosomal DNA companies is that they're actually rewriting history with faulty science. According to the textbooks, because some of the tribes are genetically close, those companies can't decipher between the two and thus, default everyone into Nigerian. If you're Kru from Liiberia, you will be Nigerian. If you are Congolese, you will be Nigerian. If you are in Nigeria and are of Fula/Yoruba/igbo descent, they can't decipher between those tribes and thus will default you into Yoruba. For a virtually small amount of Americans, close to 400,000 where Nigerians were brought specifically to Virginia and most of the other enslaved were Senegambians, Sierra Leone, Congo, Angola, Benin and Mali, it's difficult to believe that people are showing up with these large "Nigerian" numbers. I've even seen people from various countries show up as Nigerian or have Nigerian blood and it's not true historically. I also find that their reference populations are inclusive of people who never really traded with the British. Yorubas and Esan traded with the Portuguese and Spanish which is why their religion is so dominant in the culture and music of Brazil, Cuba, Domican Republic and Puerto Rico. They have people confused.
Paternal DNA is YDNA women don’t have the Y chromosome they have Two X Chromosomes. The YDNA is passed down father to son is identically unless there is an actual mutation. Mutations happen less than once every 500 years. So if you have two brothers that have Different YDNA then they are half bothers with two different Fathers. Maternal DNA is Mitochondrial DNA that is not in the Nucleus of the Cell. It is passed to all your mothers children male and female. If your sibling has different MTDNA from you then there was an adoption, a step mother or a mistake at the hospital. The test AncestryDNA does is an Autosomal DNA test it is good for tracing relatives back up to 400 years. MtDNA and YDNA are good for migratory history 500-180,000 years.
You're so right Jamaica 🇯🇲 was just a stop and so much people say they're not African they're Jamaican, make it make sense
Make it make sense indeed lol! Thx for watching and commenting :)
It’s not just 23 & me. AncestryDNA has done the same thing. Since I had it done, my profile has changed a lot. I went from being 49% Cameroon, to 19% Cameroon… I was American indigenous, now I’m Philippines. And no longer American indigenous. I’m ordering African ancestry
Wow, that's a huge change in results, yeah African Ancestry is the most accurate for us!
The change is due to them getting more DNA samples from reference populations and more accurate, conclusive histories to confirm sample heritage, so they can make results more accurate. In other words, it’s that their data is getting more specific and accurate so your results do the same.
Mali
Primarily located in: Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone
Also found in: Central African Republic, Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Senegal, South Sudan
Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples
Primarily located in: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Namibia, Republic of the Congo, Zambia
Also found in: Botswana, Burundi, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
We were a very nomadic people :)
Thanks for the video. So many more questions!
Your welcome!
I did the 23andMe dna test. They recently informed me that I am from the Igbo, Fulani and Wulof tribes. I need to take the African test for sure
Wow amazing, yes I always like to cross-reference and see what other companies say :)
I was looking for information about dna testing. Thankfully, i ran across your channel. Nice reporting. Thank you for sharing.🥰😊🥰
Glad it was helpful!
I am don't have any African heritage in my DNA but this is cool test never knew this test existed super neat :)
It is pretty cool, thanks for watching :)
I want to do a DNA test, but there's no many dangers involved. And I don't want my DNA to be held in a data base where it can be exploited
For the longest while I felt the same way, but really and truly they have our dna already and in these time learning our past and connecting with who my people were before trauma is so important so it was worth it for me. If your "black" and concerned with what you mentioned I would suggest African Ancestry and not Ancestry DNA they seem like the only company against selling your info and that actually care about us that's why the test is more expensive because they're not making money off of it in other ways.
@@squarehuxtable African ancestry won't give your DNA away or sell it?
Thats their main selling point" We destroy 100% of your DNA samples. We DO NOT sell or share your genetic information." At least thats what they advertise you never know with any business but I would trust them way more than the other companies
Life is too short to be worried about something like that. Plus what are they going to do with your dna ?? What makes us so special ? They probably already have it from vaccines, blood draws, fingerprints, urine test, etc. it doesn’t matter.
@@wherezmemallet4879 when our government warn our soldiers not to give up their DNA, you know it's dangerous. It can be weaponized. Notice France refused to submit to a test to prevent the possibility of Russia potentially gathering Macron's DNA.
And what makes me special? Ask the Masonic order. They threatened me and said everywhere I go I'd find a Mason. I live under constant survailence as if their waiting for me to defecate gold bricks. Don't ask me why I'm so special, ask them. They can tell you when I fart
Try Livingdna and compare your African ancestry results. They show tribes but it’s not specific to mitochondria DNA, it’s autosomal so it shows all lines, not just your mother’s maternal line. It also gives your Haplotypes as well.
You're absolutely right just didnt think that was relevant for this video because that from my interpretation where TMH wants us to go :)
I did LivingDNA and it lined up with African Ancestry where 23andMe did not. 🤷🏾
You are from a lineage of kings and queens, so it would be natural to gravitate to quality items. “They” learned all that stuff from us. I have felt that way since adolescences. I am a refined Afrikan Jamaican who prefers quality over quantity.
I did Afrikan Ancestry and I am Tikar, Housa and Fulani found in the region of “so called” Cameroon. I will be happy when they realize that those are artificial boarder and allow us to have continental citizenship or at least citizenship in any Afrikan country of choice based on Afrikan descents. Ashé sister Queen🙏🏾💗
Lol so called Cameroon couldnt agree more! I long fo the day that Africa is borderless to Africans.
The difference is Autosomal DNA deals with all your ancestors in your ancestral past from both sides of mother and father as well as their ancestors put into one group to estimate frequencies into percentages that match, (This is clusters of DNA not a single strain)
While accurately African African Ancestry focus on dividing dna into a single direct strain of DNA for only Patriarchal & Matriarchal lineages they don’t deal with autosomal DNA)
Thank you for the explanation!
The African ancestry is highly expensive, especially if you are doing both parents. It is just like for everything else that is related to black people, like hair products, everything is so much more expensive, it is discouraging.
Thank you for the video., Love it ❤️
It is way more expensive but I heard they dont sell your information thats why a lot of other tests are cheaper because they make their money in other ways.
Your video gave viewers a lot of valuable information. I am glad I stopped by.
Thank you so much for watching!!! More informative videos coming soon!!!
None of the companies can deny black Hebrew lineage these days. I was military and they began taking our DNA in the 80s. Also, Covid was developed for certain ethnic groups and I didn’t know many dark people that died from it although some did however there were entire countries on the African continent that didn’t have one case of Covid. Yashua is greater than anything that humankind can come up with.
They shouldnt be able to deny it at this point but they will!
Good video!!!❤
Thank you!!
Senegal
Primarily located in: Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal
Also found in: Cape Verde, Cote D'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, South Sudan
Thank you for this info, where'd you get this info from in case someone asks?
@@squarehuxtable AncestryDNA
@18:20 Sierra Leone needs to get their citizenship process in order. There are many Mende just across the border in Liberia.
So if someone has results which say Mende in Liberia then they won't accept? That is silly.
Truthfully we should all qualify as Krio but that is another story(both Liberia and Sierra Leone should have very easy citizenship process for folks of enslaved ancestry in the West due to their founding histories)
So true, especially nomadic tribes its hard to pinpoint them to a countries borders. Ive heard that more Afrucan countries are in negotiations with possibly offering citizenship via descent! Thx for watching!
@@squarehuxtable good luck 🤞 I already went through the process but wish it wasn't so strict considering many want to return and may not have the results needed(but again, given the founding history of Liberia and Freetown, the process should be more open)
Using haplogroups to determine citizenship is questionable.
@@squarehuxtable what they should do is base it on cousin matches via centimorgans. If you share at least 8 or more centimorgans with an African person. You should be able to apply for citizenship in that relatives country. I do think you should have to learn about the culture of the country. But then understand citizenship is a colonial concept. It's based on either Roman or British law.
@@mrhimselfalone7657 I was able to get my Sierra Leone Citizenship and connect with my Limba Tribe due to my AA DNA test. I understand what youre saying but when I went to the village I looked like everyone the characteristics of my tribe were describing my personality. I was home!
Glad you agree. I like 23 and me, but they tend to tell British and Irish people they have Congolese when it's the opposite. The reference groups were specifically designated to show Europeans their roots and it's turning into some sort of rewriting of History.
The Mali ethnicity in Ancestry DNA is Sierra Leone as well
Thank you yes you're so right but since Im looking to get Sierra Leone Citizenship Via Descent they wont accept these results so I'll have to take an African Ancestry test like my sister did :)
💚So True… Enjoyed Your Vlog!!!
Especially if you have family members in the military, then the government has your family’s DNA 🧬.
Thank you for sharing!!
So true! I had to take C o v i d tests multiple times a week in production, they have mine already for sure!
Blessings, Sister.
I found that most of the people including you have almost the same results as I do. I find it hard to believe That I am in some way kin to everyone I know and a few people that I obviously do not know. Does this mean that my ancestry is extremely common or something is a miss?
Whatever the case. I thank you for your videos and appreciate your candor.
Blessings to you
DOTK
So cute 😌
Thanks for sharing, thats why I really recommend doing multiple tests and if you have African ancestry which you clearly do I really think African Ancestry is the most accurate. Im going to do my soon and post the results so let's see if it matches up with what Ancestry DNA says! But best case scenario we're cousins, hi fam! LOL
You got it; knowledge is Power and they Do Not what us to have this Knowing!
Our people have been asleep for 400yrs but NOW we do not want to wake!
The Word of our LORD God of Israel said that we need to be ready for his coming. The Words are for us.
Here is the thing; we claim all the unnecessary names of Colony rather than finding out who we are as a PEOPLE.
We can never win the battle if we are divided so until we woke; our feet will know no peace.
I thank you for the work you are doing and what you plan to do in the next moments. I will stay in touch with you on this journey of knowing. Bless
Well said! We can never win divided, unite we must!!!
Aw man I feel discouraged now. I first took my test with 23andme & was excited to have found some relatives but now I got my results from MyHeritage & they look a bit different. So I’m confused 😩 I’d like to take a test with African ancestry but it’s so pricey 😣 one day 🤞🏾
Aww noo sorry you feel discouraged, I know it can be a frustrating journey but the fact that you've taken multiple tests I think will help you in the long run, I wish there was ONE test that could tell us everything. African Ancestry is pricey lol
Myheritage uses fewer groups which is why your results differ. For example if you got "Kenyan" that's not exactly reasonable if you had ancestors effected by the Atlantic slave trade, however it's not totally "wrong" either. Kenya was part of the Bantu expansion. Bantu people originated thousands of years ago in Cameroon or the border of Cameroon and Nigeria. They spraedi to Central,East, and South Africa. Some got trafficked to the Americas. From the Congo river region. This is why you may get Kenyan on Myheritage.
Also Myheritage does not to my knowledge have a number of West African countries. They have Nigeria and Sierra Leone. When a tests lacks samples the algorithm just puts you into the closest panel available. But when they get more samples it may change. Another issue is migration. As an example AncestryDNA. Cannot fully distinguish "Benin & Togo" ancestry from Ghanaian or Nigerian depending on the "tribe". Ewe people claim to have migrated from Nigeria to Togo and Ghana. So now Ewe get results placing them in Benin & Togo and Ivory Coast & Ghana. Rather than Eweland, because technically there is no independent Eweland. Yoruba fall under Nigeria and Benin. The AncestryDNA test will not necessarily just place all Yoruba in one country. They cannot put Fulani in one country because they are nomadic. However they are concentrated in Guinea Conakry,Mali,Senegal, and the Gambia.
Your relatives shouldn't change only the "Interpretation" of what "ethnicity" group you supposedly belong to. That's a bunch of garbage.
@@Simonjose7258 my estimate changed on AncestyDNA but yes my matches are still the same people as before an update
My sister i would like to thank you for sharing i am was born in Jamaica and hearing you were born from Jamaican parents it gave me my answer nice woman
You are so welcome!!!
African ancestry only looks at your maternal line, like you said. This is a tiny tiny fraction of your overall ancestry (10 generations yields over 1000 ancestors, so going back ~200 years, you get 0.1%). AncestryDNA will give you the broader picture of your entire ancestry. The upside of African Ancestry is they have more detailed samples to compare with, but they only compare a tiny fraction of your dna to these samples.
Im about to do a part two to this Yes youre right but I think both are necessary I plan to do 4 African Ancestry tests to get the full understanding AA was able to tell me Im from the Limba tribe something I doubt AncestryDNA will ever be able to tell me :)
@@squarehuxtable Do you have experience with "Living DNA"? You can upload your DNA from an ancestry or 23andme test for a small fee. Apparently they breakdown African ancestry to fairly good detail including tribal origins.
I'd like to try that one myself, since my maternal/paternal lines are very likely not African (regardless of my African ancestry)
You are spot on! I feel that way about Ancestry! 10% Scandinavian? Really? 1-2% Ashkenazi? Really?
Thx for watching!!
I def think its worth it to take 2 tests to compare results!
Most Americans are mixed race
Every human on this planet is mixed raced. There is no such thing as a pure blooded Human. If you want a pure blooded Hominid (Homo-Sapien) you would need to clone a test from a cavemans bone. The DNA information doesn't change you. You're still you. Its genome coding of Junk DNA that holds. Anything under 3% is Junk DNA. So your mutation could be for instant (CYMA1.-A2 or R1b2-AC) these mutations could match with Ashanknazi or what ever because that person with the mutations you have could hold Ashanknazi Junk DNA so it gets allocated too yourself. These Test need too be "Dumbed" down as Genetics is very confusing. Trust me there is main branches of ancestors and there is then millions if not billions of mutations attached too those trees.
Hope this helps pal. Peace from Scotland ☝🏼
You have encouraged me to do the African Ancestry test. Thank you.
Exciting! I love to hear the results if you feel like sharing!
Redefine probably means group them together make it less accurate/more broad
Hi :) thx for watching but not sure what you're referring to?
@@squarehuxtable the question I asked
I think the truth is that they are still working to build a accurate sample of people to test. They try to get people whose parents and grandparents are all from that same place. Then they use that DNA.
If you click on Ivory Coast/Ghana, and Mali.. they both have Sierra Leone in the primary location. You have to click on the region to see it
Yes, thanks for telling me that!! My friend just showed that to me the problem is I don't think that will qualify for citizenship since Sierra Leone isn't listed on my report...but I will find out and update everyone :)
@@squarehuxtable it may be exhausting, but if you took AncestryDNA. 1. Go to where it let's you customize the centimorgans. Start at 6 and go up. You will have to really look at a lot of names. Make not of any last names which look unusual. 2. If you find any that are unusual where it says ethnicity look to see if they lack European or Native American admixture. Because Africans who remained in Africa did not mix with Europeans too much or with Native and chances are that they are Africans 3. So now you've got matches who only have African results with names that are probably African 4. Look those names up to see where they are from and possibly what tribe (s) have them.
Now here is where you can run into an issue. Many African immigrants have married African Americans. You could potentially match with a "Halfrican" but not necessarily via their African parent. This is complicated by a country or in a country like Sierra Leone. I have matches who are part Mende. But I don't know if I match their Mende side or their African American side. I do know that I have Mali, Ivory Coast and Ghana and Senegal. My part Sierra Leonean matches have that too much higher than I do.
When African Ancestry had the autosomal test the results were reportedly extremely vague as well. 23andme has general regions but they have improved over time. Ancestry DNA I think is better for Black Americans to make connections.
Very true, that's the good thing about every test it will improve the more samples they get and the more science develops!
I found African cousins in 5th-8th cousin range on AncestryDNA. On 23andme I thought I found a Cameroonian but oddly enough he disappeared.
With my 23andme results set at 50% confidence level I'm 45.4% Nigerian out of 86.8% of me that is African. But this lowers as I increase the confidence level to 90%. Then I'm 16.6% Nigerian. This is still higher than anything else. Ancestry had me at 46% Nigerian out of 88% African with a range of 56-37%. But now they took 6% off. Not sure what they did with it. The new range is 47-27%
I'm now 40% Nigerian out of 89% African. I'm only 9% European now on AncestryDNA
From experience myHeritage was very accurate for Sierra Leone heritage
This is good to know, since doing my test I've been hearing good things about MyHeritage!
I would love to do the the one you did, but I in the UK...I'm wondering if it will be as detailed? Also if because they are not centralised labs...if there will be any difference? I did "My Heritage" I'm not too confident in them! Any advice?
I defintly recommend doing more than one test and comparing the results. I havent researched My Heritage enough to give advice but if you tell me what you what to learn from the tests I might be able to advise. for example people with African roots to learn the best about those I think African Ancestry the only reason why I did Ancestry DNA is I wanted to know my percentage of African which African Ancestry doesnt tell you. So now that I know Im 91% African I can go do all my African Ancestry tests and find the specific tribes :) Also I dont think the centralized labs will make a difference, hope this response helps in some way :0)
Love the detailed video thanks for sharing ….. when I saw your results I was thinking how Similar your results were to mine and was wondering if you were Jamaican …most Jamaicans know and realise their ancestry is African as it’s taught in schools … maybe those who never knew ent to school done think they are of African decent 🙄 but when you said you had a sierra Leone tribal affiliation I thought maybe not….. most Jamaicans have a Nigerian Cameroon Congo or Ghanaian tribal group…. my son also has a large amount of Sierra Leone dna which he inherited from his father …. his father never knew he had Sierra Leone at all as his father is from north east Africa ….. it goes to show how people think they are native to a region but their ancestors travelled …. I am at the moment researching the original map boundaries tribal regions and tribes of the west African region. Because the present boundaries don’t really help in explaining tribal affiliations…. As dna states a person can be born and raised in a country but that doesn’t make them native as people migrate and move around…. Eg a chinaman born and raised in Spain is never a Spaniard…..When I did my ancestry dna I ran my raw dna via gedmatch which is free and much more accurate than any dna testing company and it aligns your dna to a specific tribe according to your raw data this makes sense ….. a lot of sense as when I researched the tribe it showed me I can see the family resemblance clearly….. I just find that African ancestry doesn’t give people value for money at those extortionate prices …. I have seen many African Americans take the African ancestry only to be told that their haplogroup is 100% European which is understandable due to the extreme level of slavery that occurred in North America….
Hi Family!! Agreed 100% Im doing the same thing looking at our original borders before the colonizer made the borders we see today. the only thing I happy about is am 93% African I believe in One Africa we are all one yes we have different tribes and lineages and we should know those too but so the past doesnt keep on repeating itself we have to understand we are one and to be unified in order to defeat those who are trying to tear us asunder :)
1. Ethnicity = tribe.
2. Bantu is more like a language group similar to how Europeans have the Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages groups etc.
So for example:
1. Luhya, Kikuyu, Kamba, Kisii, (East Africa), Bemba, Luba, (Central Africa), Shona, Xhosa, Sena, Chewa, Zulu, Venda, (southern Africa) are examples of ethnic groups that fall under the 'Bantu' language group.
2. Maasai, Kalenjin, Luo (East Africa) are examples of ethnic groups falling under the 'Nilotic' (Nilotes) language group.
3. Somalis, Amhara, Tigrays (Horn of Africa) are example of ethnic groups that fall under the 'Cushitic' (Cushites) language group.
Unfortunately i am not familiar with West African language groups.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this detailed explanation, yes this is absolutely true but I've always wondered does Bantu, Nilotic and Cushitic span farther than linguistics and are they just the larger grouping of our tribe seeing as their are aesthetic similarities and difference amongst the three? Also I've been on a quest to find out what tribes under Western Bantu People so far just says they are part of the same group who inhabit Eastern and Southern Africa...
@@squarehuxtable Examples of Western Bantu would be the original Kongo people (from which the Europeans took the name Congo for the huge colony and now country that includes non-Kongo ethnic groups), Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Chokwe, Herero.
Research the peoples of modern day countries, Angola, Congo (Brazzaville), Gabon, Equatorial Guinea for examples of Western Bantus. The region was involved and affected by the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Asante Sana!!!
I am an african. Here is what I know about Jamaica DNA. The Jamaicans where Africans taken for slavery and was been taking to the West. Half way to the West, there was abolition of slave trade so, the where abandoned in Jamaica. That's how they settled in Jamaica. Same thing with Haiti etc.
Yes many of us in the caribbean were brought over in the slave trade, I dont think it was abolished and abandoned though the sory is the most unruly enslaved people that they couldnt tame were let off in Jamaica...thats why Jamaicans act the way we do lol
@@squarehuxtable 😘❤️
Hello Square Huxtable. Congratulations on your DNA "ethnicity estimates." Unfortunately, I am not aware of any genetic testing company that can definitively prove scientifically that I am a biological relative to a specific African tribe or community. For example, my African Ancestry determined that my Y chromosome polymorphism is 100% Yoruba People. HOWEVER, Yoruba is a "cultural" identity NOT biological. There scientific analysis of my Y chromosome is no deferent than Ancestry DNA'S geographical "ethnicity estimates.' In fact, Ancestry DNA will tell you that our DNA looks similar to samples in their reference panel.
You goal is amazing and I think is admirable!
Thank you!!!!!
Where did you get your head wrap from ? It’s beautiful!
Thank you! They are samples I possibly might sell them, I dont know where you can buy them not in bulk like I did, or I would tell you sis!
I also would think the AncestryDNA and 23 and me are showing you the DNA of your closest relatives. Not your most distant
Yes the closest relatives that they have DNA samples of. I dont remember what I said but if I said most distant I misspoke :)
This is a misinterpretation of how African Ancestry works. African Ancestry is identifying ONE ancestor from about 500 years ago through an mtDNA test- so the percentage could very well not be significant enough to be visible through the ancestry DNA test, which is a microarray-based autosomal DNA test.
Natinality is different from A race...
I can be a chinese citizen
But not a china man.
But racialy an African.
I know :)
I am black and from Jamaica. My white dna is between 10 and 20% and I am very interested in it. I must admit that my interest may be because white white English ancestry is from a prominent English family. So, most of my family tree consists of white people, although this is also down to a lack of records for my black ancestry. According to Myheritage, I'm in a genetic group comprised on descendants of the first colonisers/settlers of the US. I have Mayflower ancestors. This means that I am distant cousins of US Presidents, Jimmy Carter, entertainers like Catherine Hepburn etc. I'm also a (very) distant step ancestor is a king. I am quite fascinated by this.
Glad you were able to find your roots!! But your 90 and 80% probably has some royalty in it dont get caught up in the propaganda they sold us there is powerful amazing ancestors on your other side as well :)
My largest percentage is in Nigeria and the Congo. For Sierra Leon I have like 6% would that be enough? It's terrible be have to go through this classified as AFRICAN americans
Just subscribed blessing to see our people of all ages awaken to the truth of history and Hebrewism...I’m sure or maybe not u hv heard of Ron Dalton Jr Hebrews to Negroes book series and videos...teowt ministries and Dante Forston...they hit on all levels of the diaspora and African history connected to American history...look forward to more vids from you younglady seek Yahshua salvation is in him...shalom
I have read those books! Blessings back to you king!
After seeing your last video about Sierra Leone, I bought AfricanAncestry test...wasn't happy about the price, but I stopped being cheap and did it.
I already had results from AncestryDNA saying I am 37% Nigerian.
African Ancestry came through was some suuuper bogus results - claiming I match 100% with the Lyela tribe in Burkina Faso...nah
Hey Teddy, Did you do your paternal side?Why do you think thats super bogus? Because it doesnt match with the Nigeria? Remember AA has way for African data sets where Ancestry groups a bunch of countries as Nigeria.
The tests are completely different and she is not explaining them well. The Ancestry is autosomal test inheritance from both mum and dad, and it's only for about 500yrs. The African ancestry for female is pure maternal line as using maternal line for over 5000yrs so both of your result are correct.
Hello I would like to know what they changed in 23andme please? where can I find this information?
It was a personal story my close friend told me if it was my story I would disclose more details...I doubt you'll find it on the web its not something they would advertise
I'm almost positive it's the Somalis
@@aguiheke7284 what they don't wanna be named bantu or something? What you mean
@@user-hy4xz1qt9h They claim they don't have ancient Arab admixture. That's what the test were showing before they complained and had it changed.
The Sierra Leone is under the Mali region in Ancestry DNA.
Thanks so much, I realized this later but this result is not good enough to get Sierra Leone citizenship I have to go through African Ancestry.
Thanx for the video
My pleasure
BRUH I DID A 23andme test and now Im scared. I set it up so after 6 months they throw away my DNA
Dont be scared, by now ALL of us have our DNA out there!
Patricia Matthew's; My sentiments too ! ,I'm only interested in my African (Sub-Saharan) roots !!!.
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I think that your Mali percentage can include Sierra Leone.
You're so right it does, doing a follow up on this video soon!
I am glad that she did this video, however I have a slight issue. If look at the holy scriptures, the Most High said, "We are the (seed) of our Fathers.". That's really what we should be doing. Then,the maternal could be just FYI.
*SIDE NOTE - I know many that are in S.L. Ghana and other W.A. Countries. The Diaspora is going home.
Good point!!
DNA does not lie so you cannot deny.
5:52 Could you be a little more specific 🤔 What group?
Im going to ask my friend if I can share more and get back to you!
@@squarehuxtable I'm so curious. Not asking for names. Curious about 23 and Me and all these companies... I'm always interested in Human History and evolution and when I watch scientific lectures on ancient DNA, sometimes they will bring up these companies and they rarely have anything positive to say. They always claim that these companies are over-promising results and even pushing some outdated concepts like "The Races". Geneticists only talk about populations. These tests will also leave out information that isn't relevant to the narrative, like how closely related you might be to people in the opposite side of the globe. We all have way more in common than not. But that's not nearly as exciting as hearing that you are unique and one of a kind. Love your attitude. Very... I don't know 🤔 You actually remind me of a good Judy of mine from back in the day. Jewish girl. But for some reason you remind me of her. Thanks for responding. 🙏🥳🌈
Western Bantu is not Sierra Leone
Western Bantu people is Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Angola
Thank you, do you know why it comes up as Western Bantu and not just Gabon, Angola?? I know bantu people are in all those regions but just wondering?
@@squarehuxtable 65% of all slaves taken to the Americas were of Bantu origin. There’s a misconception by many descendants of Slaves that majority of slaves were from Ghana, DNA has proven that to be wrong, because Ghana was only a slave holding facility. Your ancestors were of Bantu origin.
Yes I know that I know that we're a nomadic people and we reside all over the continent and like you mentioned scattered in all corners of the World. I've been studying Bantu people since I shot this video. I was just wondering how the DNA Test identified it as Bantu and not Angola is all :)
@@squarehuxtable It sometimes confusing to some people. The Bantus are divided into three groups, Western, Southern and Eastern Bantus. Cameroon was and is the homeland of the Bantu before the great migration began. So when they say “Western Bantu” they are telling you that your ancestors came from the Bantu people who resides starting from Cameroon to Namibia as you can see on the map of the Bantu provided to you by the DNA agency.
@@squarehuxtable Bantu states include: the Kingdom of Kongo, Anziku Kingdom, Kingdom of Ndongo, the Kingdom of Matamba the Kuba Kingdom, the Lunda Empire, the Luba Empire, Mbunda Kingdom, Yeke Kingdom, Kasanje Kingdom, Empire of Kitara, Butooro, Bunyoro, Buganda kingdom, kingdom of Bamum, Busoga, Rwanda, Burundi, Ankole, the Kingdom of Mpororo, the Kingdom of Igara, the Kingdom of Kooki, the Kingdom of Karagwe, Swahili city states, the Mutapa Empire, the Zulu Kingdom, the Ndebele Kingdom, Mthethwa Empire, Tswana city states, Mapungubwe, Kingdom of Eswatini, the Kingdom of Butua, Maravi, Danamombe, Khami, Naletale, Kingdoms of Zimbabwe and Mozambique and the Rozwi Empire.
These are the Empires and kingdoms the Bantus built during the Bantu expansion.
Use the company called livingDna for a better breakdown of African DNA
Good to know, a couple people have told me this Ill research them!
You look like a sierra Leonean. One of my cousins to be precise. My mother is a Mende and my dad a creole freed slave settler.
Wicked!! Do you live in Sierra Leone or are you Sierra Leone descent?
What's your Haplogroup?
The one Coast that you're showing the west coast of Africa was known as the slave Coast, that is where the slave trade was happening. A lot of us our ancestors fled Jerusalem when wrong attacked they fled into Africa to the northern part to the center of Africa until the west coast of Africa which is slave Coast.
Have you watched my video Africa is the Promised Land it has vintage maps of this region that has the Kingdom of Juda on it and the slave coast right below it a map from 1747 on the Library of Congress Website!
Yeah sis, most of the Jamaicans are still in their heads about who they truly are, and this goes for the other Islands and countries where slaves were taken.
We are NOT what they want us to claim.
It is time for us to know the truth about who we really are and this truth does not STOP in "Africa" so we need to read the Bible and understand the words therein. Bless
I am Xhosa, we click a lot.
Hahaha i just started studying isixhosa Molo, unjani? Thats all ive learned thus far,😅 i hope i can learn the click 🙏🏾
I like 23andMe, I believe that they are the most accurate of the dna companies available today. I would change their dna too if they do not want to accept the truth. The customers are always right. So be it. As far as African ancestry is concerned, I would fully support them if they will break down how many markers they test and how accurate is their result according to the amount of markers they test. In other words, where are their white papers that other companies submit to the public. After all they charge more than 3 times the amount other companies charge and give you about 1/3 the information. For what they charge they should answer all your questions for that piece of paper they give you.
There is nowhere I've seen state that 23 and Me would be more accurate with African DNA, I would doubt that more than African Ancestry??? you might be talking about other regions then you might be correct. Whatever you prefer but I don't like their business practices whatsoever so I would personally never ever use them :) We can agree to disagree that the customer is always right that defeats the purpose of DNA. If everyone just picked and chose what region they preferred that wouldn't be science.
I agree African Ancestry is pretty expensive but offering tribe level and haplogroup is providing details that a lot of other companies can't.
Neither can African Ancestry give you accurate or near accurate tribes. They will not even tell you how many dna markers that they test to come up with their results. I have asked numerous times and they refuse to tell me. The only thing that they give you is a piece of paper. In other words you take their word and they do not give you any science that support your results. The only way you can prove me wrong is to contact them and they give you the answer because they have yet to answer me and I wrote to them directly. In fact I even asked the question on African Ancestry RUclips page and they have never respond. They respond to others but not to my question. And for the amount of money I paid, I believe that I deserved at least a curtesy respond. When I emailed my question, they referred me to some other sources about dna but not the number of markers that they test and how many markers need to be tested in order to get whatever percentage of accuracy.
Nah black Jamaicans aren't native to Jamaica unless they have proof that there indigenous
Agreed but sadly a lot of people don't realize that!
Arawaks and Caribs were indigenous to the Caribbean and were destroyed by the French and the British
@@garthyahudahandrews8504 yup whi h modern day Taino's
Western Bantu are Central African People from Southern Cameroon all the way to Angola
This is very interesting because the Lemba are indeed Israelites.
You are so right, they are!! A lot of African tribes are!!!! I'm Limba not the same tribe as Lemba :) We're learning that Israelite is really just the name that replaced Bantu :)
That 23 and me thing is CRAZY! Wow
Right!!!!So messed up!
It is extremely important that we understand DNA markers as a people, because DNA markers are what connect us to the Truth. These ancestry companies know this so it makes me question the validity of them. The biblical Isrealites of Scripture had a specific DNA marker, the amazing thing is that there is only one group of people who share that exact same DNA marker. Also, check the Transatlantic Slavetrade name database, the original one, you'll see that all of the slaves, man, woman and child, had Yah in their name, brings new meaning to 2 Chronicles 7:14....
I totally understand questioning the validity, Im not 100%sold either but it told me who my cousins were that I wouldnt have known but my mom(verified it) and told me certain things that are a good start to go hunt in other ways for the truth. I will never solely really on one method to tell me who I am :) Yes I've seen that database a lot of Yahs, yayas and Original biblical names :)
The Israelites had a specific DNA marker? Name it. And go to Slave Voyagers name database. I haven't seen one name with yah in the database. Tell me where I can see the original one.
@@UICeinnselaig, because you have not seen the original documents. Research the DNA markers. Your not ready to have a discussion about this, because you have no idea what happened and what is going on.
@@craigjoseph9374 I've not seen the original Doc's. So I'll ask you again how did you see them. And by the way slave voyagers database is the collection of all known documents collated and organised into the resource. I'm not ready to have a discussion about this? I asked you for the specific DNA marker. Otherwise how can I possibly research your claim of a isolated marker. I could research the haplogroups of Israel and western Asia. Which I have many times. Not once have I come across any information of a group of people having an isolated marker. So don't tell me I'm not ready to have a discussion when you have ignored my questions. Why do I have to do the research? If you know of this DNA marker it should be no problem naming it. If you've seen the document should be no problem saying how you managed to. So put up or shut up.
@@UICeinnselaig, my apologies if I offended you. If I found them, so can you. When you search for it, it will mean that much more to you, because of the time and effort you put in. My words have pointed you in the right direction, dig and sort through ALL of the lies.
In jamaica only about 38 people are left from native taino /arawak
Jamaicans,,.from a [population of 3 .3 million people.aprox
98 % are Africans.
Facts.
Thank you for sharing the statistics, that's why I said what I said in the video :)
There were DARK-skinned and light-skinned Europeans deported to the Americas (North, Carribean, central etc), especially to Jamaica. They kept their European names. And as you said there were indigenous “black” people there. You seem to reduce their part of the population to a small portion, but based on which source or data? Human migrations are not “simple” and do not necessarily correspond to what we have been told… I am a little amazed at how people dismiss this or that as “not true” or “not possible”. There is MUCH more to history than we think there is and I feel that African Americans (who actually in some cases may have nothing African in their bloodline) and for who “black” would be more accurate, have a tendency to simplify things by “eliminating” possibilities due to their vision of history.
Bantu is not a tribe. It’s a language
Like English is a language Swahili is
a language. A language group
Yes and no, Bantu is also a people and those people speak Bantu languages it has been watered down to be seen as just a language but I look at it as a bloodline :)
Lemba's are original jews.
Yes yes they are the original israelites or people from the bible so are alot of us, 12 tribes!! But funny you said that, that's the tribe I thought at first but the tribe in Sierra Leone it said my maternal line is from is Limba not Lembe I haven't found any connections between the two.
@@squarehuxtable it's not that simple. 1) in order to establish that Balemba were Jews. Geneticists made an assumption that the Jews in modern Israel were not converts themselves 2) next they assumed Aaron was a historic person whose DNA would be shared by his male descendants. After doing a rather shallow survey and finding many Jews with the surname Cohan or Kahn were relatively closely related. They said ah ha! We have found the priestly line and finding that in the Balemba they concluded they indeed migrated from West Asia to Africa.
But here is where it falls apart. The lineage that the Jews of modern Israel and Balemba share is called haplogroup J. Jews are not the only ones with J Greeks have it so do Ethiopians. So do Arabs. There is J1 and J2. The mutations found in Cohan or Kahn people so-called CMH are found in J1 and J2. J split in two long before Aaron would have lived.
Then you have the Bible itself which says that after Israel was exiles by the Assyrians. The Assyrians let a priest come back to convert the people who were sent to replace the Israelites. The priests of those people belong to an E lineage not J. There are many lineages separating E and J. It goes A, BT, CT,DE. B split from CT. C from DE. Leaving CF. Everything from C to T excluding D and E is basically non-African. D split into D1 and D2. They found D1 originally outside Africa. But recently they found a D lineage in west Africa. So now, C split off from F. This leaves F as the ancestor of G,H,IJ,K. I and J split. Leaving K as ancestor of L,M,M,NO,P. N and O split. O by the way is very typical of Chinese men but also the Malagasy. K is also the ancestor of T. P is the ancestor of Q and R. C and Q are the most common Native American male lineages. You can have those and not be Native American though as well. R is the most common in Western Europe. But one R lineage is characteristic of Chadic speakers.
AA men have E(E1b1a) specifically E-M2,I which is European, European R more so than Chadic. We also have various A lines including A00,we have B we also have E2. There are too many lines for us to be all descendants of Abraham. No one has dug old Abe up to be able to see who does or does not match him.
Is there Native DNA sites in Africa id prefer to only find out which tribe on the continent I'm not interested in others nations outside the continent 🇯🇲❤️ I already know I'm black of African decent I don't care other places
Great question I have yet to see native African dna sites but I will research, but from what I researched African Ancestry will be better for you than any other test I mentioned :)
Why would you want them to move to Africa?
So how you got serre Leone dna
How
8:47 Limba of Sierra Leone 🇸🇱. Cool.
I cant wait to do more research and meet people in the Limba tribe!!!
Black is a color, we are so called black men and women. The people of Jamaica are from the tribe of Benjamin which is one of the 12 tribes. You can do your own research there were people out here that are talking about and I don't mean on street corners I'm talking about on the internet.
Ive done my research already my brother :)
Hey my militant sista❤🖤💚😉. The motherland is heavy in my spirit. Havent took dna test but definitely just trying to touch mother land.so much is not well with west and i am one that wont even pay attention to slave master beast dna that may be there . i know the African dominated. ❤❤❤
Hey my sister 🖤💚 I so hope you and all of us touch the motherland soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have done both and both are always updating your dna especially ancestry. I found 23 and me more accurately. I love everything you are teaching on. You have peaked my interest in getting dual citizenship
Let me know if you end up getting it I would love to hear about it!!!
With more people testing in different regions #s could change for you according to those people you match DNA with. Make sense?
Just for the record the Mende of Sierra Leone are not from Sierra Leone. Lol
From my research Mende are one of the largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone...someone asked if them being Mende qualified them for Sierra Leone citizenship and all I said is no. For the record where are they from?
@@squarehuxtable The Mande are originally from whats modern day Mali and Mauritania, they were the most powerful and influential West Afrikan tribe with the largest dynastic empires of West Afrika.
My subscriber asked a question about the Mende tribe not the Mande so I think you misunderstood but thank you for watching and for sharing your thoughts :)
Sad to tell you that 23 and Me did give african tribe and that why they the next top in the game 🙂
Glad you like them dont think I could get a 23 and me test though sont trust the integrity of the company whatsoever...also people were telling me that for Africans its not accurate...I love the info I got from Ancestry but i still dont trust it compared to what African Ancestry can tell me
@@squarehuxtable I totally understand and what ever people told you from my own eyes people that was from there in Africa born in Africa in the tribe that they received in 23 and me was very accurate I also receive the fulani tribe and 2 day after on ancestry I found 3 fulani cousin that i didn't know I have
Awesome!
@@squarehuxtable 23amdme has been accurate for Africans from what I've seen plus
West African
Ghanaian, Liberian & Sierra Leonean
Ghana (7+ regions)
Liberia (6+ regions)
Sierra Leone
Ashanti people - NEW
Ewe, Fon, Ga-Dangme, & Fante peoples - NEW
Mende people - NEW
Temne & Limba peoples - NEW
Peoples of Liberia - NEW
they already use Mende people - NEW
Temne & Limba peoples - NEW to determine if you have Salone in you.
not me a redditor. one Yoruba did get linked to Edo and Ijaw people despite no known family lore. but people have gotten linked to what makes sense.
Hutu and Tutsi tribes of Rwanda are both ethnic groups in their own right though they probably are both Bantu...
African ancestry do tell you the tribe
Yup yup :)
Tribe? Do they provide a true ancestry tree with family names, etc? I ask because l’ve paper traced my ancestry in America and onto Canada with names, dates, etc. Marriages, births, deaths, military records. What record keeping is Africa using to connect all these people over here with so called 52% Nigerian blood with their Nigerian family? What viable information is being given?
Looks like the Nigerian and Cameroonian region suffered the brunt of slavery and human trafficking by the British, Dutch, Spaniards and Portuguese and Danes. Those countries owe reparations to Afrikan Americans and other blacks in the Western Hemisphere.
Yes they do, Belgium and Germany they owe the Diaspora and they owe the continent!!!
Well the Moors invaded the Iberian peninsula before British colonising africa. So we'll just call it even.
I like your videos your presentation is delicate but to the point,And I love your voice .but DNA results 🤔 ,Would you ask a burglar to cut your keys ?,🤨
HAHAHA you made me literally laugh out loud!!!! You made a great point but in that way of thinking we would have to take a look at where we work, what dollar we spend and a lot of other choices in our lives. I use what I can to get the knowledge that I need, whether its their tools or ours...Also thats why I say African Ancestry is the best for African Diaspora, it is owned and controlled by us. But very great point hahaha!
You Jamaican ???
Yes, how ya do? :) you didnt watch the whole video lol? Moms from St Thomas side Dads from Trelawny side. Are you?
@@squarehuxtable I knew you was Jamaican just by looking at your face, Jamaican women have very similar features just like the same way Somali woman have very similar features it's easy to spot them out. No I'm not Jamaican btw
Aww ok! You're very perceptive!!!
IMO = how and where you are born and raised is more important than where your ancestors were born and raised.
OK just so you know for kicks and giggles here and all seriousness by the whim I mean new kicks and giggles I shouldn’t say that. The Lumba tribe is the biblical tribe of Levi so you’re related to the ancient Hebrew Israelites not the people, seven Jews those of converts fr
Hi, Can you please explain what you're saying, sorry not following?
I'm sure a person did this, 😂 imagine someone took a African Ancesty dna test to see how much and where their African dna lies, because they look "ethnic." Then they find out they have 0% all across the board 😂
I'm one of those people who took the African Ancestry DNA test to trace my mother's roots and my results came out 100% not African but Middle Eastern.
@@nicolebell8184 Wow! But I'm guessing some ppl may just want confirmation of something. If your hopes was to not have African dna you got your money's worth lol. If vice versa, then that would bite.
I went into this looking for answers, but at the same time with no expectations either. I was really shocked by the results I had gotten, because the Middle East never crossed my mind.
I do understand African Ancestry gives results of the Mother. They say it's done that way because 90 or 94% of time it goes back to Africa. Father on other hand typically will be Africa 60% of the time. I don't recall but, did you show Mom in this vid? I ask because I'm assuming based off African's test your Mother must look like a typical Middle Eastern person? Side bar it's sad knowing Father's side hit only 60% due to the European 40% potential carrying over that dna due to uhhmm, let's say late night visits to the slave quarters 😡😔 To be honest, I want to do African Ancestry but they have to calm down on their pricing (no typo I meant calm lol.) Even their specials are high 😂🤑
@@shawnebradley6542 No I never made a video about my results and yes my mom looks a little bit like a Middle Eastern woman.