I truly appreciate Dr Kittles. I took my African Ancestry test and I found out I’m Cameroonian, from the Bamileke people. If he and Dr Gina hadn’t created this company how would I know what woman survived the transatlantic ocean ride, so to speak. I now know a STRONG woman from the Bamileke tribe was a Survivor. So am I 😊
Absolutely fantastic news!! I'm so happy for you, that you've been able to open a door to part of your African ancestry. I too, will soon take my dna test with African Ancestry. Although i am very ethnically diverse, i do know that i possess some African ancestry & i would so love to explore that part of my ancestry & find out exactly, which tribe/s i'm directly connected to & descended from. Take care and all the best.
I understand that many AA who’s lineage takes them back to Spain, on the male side, almost seems common. But why do we assume that it makes them European, didnt the black Arabs rule Spain for 700 years, from approx. 700-1400? There’s plenty of African blood running through Spain.
well...it depends on the haplogroups the genetic studies show that the Spanish are Europeans with very little African ancestry The arabs weren't black The Moors were a mixture of Berber and Arab they're not necessarily black which is a social construct just like white is
@@xe5309 from firsthand descriptions they are closer to being Black than any other race and just like Blacks and even Arabs they had dark skinned members as well as light but still Black. You can look at paintings of Spaniards/Conquistadors and see that they looked Black/mixed race so try again.
Hi guys, i'm a new subscriber. This is so very interesting to watch & you're all such amazing, interesting, intelligent & beautiful human beings. I loved listening to you all, as each one of you, had such interesting info to share. Also & on a different note, i first saw Dr Rick Kittles & Gina Paige talking genetics, via the entertaining Rock Newman Show, you tube & this is when i first found out about them. I really love listening to Dr Rick Kittle's & Gina Paige. Their discussions are always very interesting to listen to. When i think of the Transatlantic slave trade & America's history, specifically since African's were forcefully transported there, through no fault or wanting of their own, it makes the yearning to know ones roots, even more profound. Most African-American's, unless they take their own DNA test, do not know exactly what parts of Africa, their ancestors hailed, so a DNA test is critical. African Ancestry DNA testing, is so very important & such a wonderful company, for it's owned & operated by African Americans. This is great, because you know that your own DNA test, will come back with much more conclusive & reliable results. It's amazing to think, that via ones DNA, they can even work out, which tribe/s a person is most connected to, genetically speaking. I love African history & i'm interested in African American history, as there's such stories to learn from & even grow from. The African peoples, lost so very much. They lost their communal, familial & cultural structure, their stability, their families, their identities, their many & varied cultures, their livelihoods/homes, etc; when they were taken from their homeland. In ref to the "one drop rule", it's so interesting to note, that "only" in the US, is this noted. Within other countries, you are who you know yourself to be. You are who you are and "not" what Govt stated that you are. If you know you're of mixed ethnicity, you can state this & no one can or will tell you otherwise. There's no law against it, which is great. There's no formal rule book, at the centre of hierarchy, telling people who they are. In Australia, Europe, South Africa, South America, Asia, wherever you head in the world, "you" state who you are & everyone simply listens to what you know yourself to be, without question or judgement. You are free, for the most part, to talk about yourself and your own personal ancestral lineage. The one drop rule is ridiculous, bec essentially it's telling all African Americans, who pretty much all possess some European ancestry & possess ancestry from other global regions too, that they're not regarded as possessing genes from the "other" regions. It's a though, if you possess genes from those other regions, the US Govt didn't always acknowledge this & it's pretty much saying, they're all only African & this is what we see & present them as. I know the imposition of identifying race/ethnicity is different now, bec it's up to the individual as to how they see themselves and describe themselves to be ethnically/racially. This then makes me think, if we're to go back in US history, that the opposite must have also been true. Meaning, so if a fully European person possesses 1% or 2% African ancestry, this must mean they they'd have been African/black, even if they don't look outwardly African, or don't know of any ancestors from Africa, within their more recent ancestry. In truth, i doubt any person of full Caucasian/European ancestry, would have ever admitted that they possessed any African roots. That admittance in & of itself, would have been criminal & would have led to hostile judgement and punishment, etc;. It was surely a scary time for African Americans, because you just never knew what the negative outcomes would be. I do know however, that light skinned Creoles, had somewhat better life opportunities than those who appeared fully African & more dark skinned, but of course, this certainly was not always the case. It's such a shameful history and a blight on European Colonizing history. Back to the one drop rule. It's so strange/weird to outsiders, but we do understand the serious complexities of US history & the negative issues that countless African American peoples have faced there. Just as an add on, there are many ethnic groups, possessing very mixed ethnicity. My South African, Brazilian & Mauritian Creole friends, all possess over 18 ethnicities each, from just about every continent on earth. It's truly amazing to see global genetic structures/inheritances & i always tell them how jealous i am of them! haha Thank you so much for sharing & my best wishes sent to you all.
Fantastic my dear brother in Christ. It's great to know our roots, but then again, if ALL humans go back to their earliest ancient ancestors, we know they they all came out of Africa. The cradle of human civilization. All the best to you Sir.
My interest about Africa just increased as my sister done test and we found she is 1/4 Wesr African We thought we might be a bit Spanish but not African. Our dad was a bit dark but not half black. I m going to have to do mine. As we are English most beople have fair eyes and skin but we have brown eyes and hair like half of Europeans
@darkeagle because my dad went to America in 1922and returned in 1930s* via Spain. Also my grandparents marriage cert show two witnesses with Spanish names. My sister looks like a very fair Jamaican girl I thought it but I hadn t figured it out. But I see her features are curly hair which she has like an afro but less tight curls her eyes, her sense of rhythm, her hot temper and her physical shape plus her head shape looks like Nefetiti which we thought looks very noble and wished mine like it. All I see in my self are those brown eyes and my nose a bit and perhaps my curved shape. European women are straight up and down. I m not like them. I thought I was different. Thank you for asking. But we don't know about the grandfather he divorced my grand ma in London. in 1903!!!! It s a mystery all we know the grand father was in the music hall.
@@alisonnorcross951 As a Black Jamaican I would love to hear your definition of a light Jamaican. Jamaicans run the gamut from white to African Black. The whites being descended from the planter class. Throw in descendants of Chinese, Indians, Syrians etc.
@@MA-yh2ko my definition of light Jamaican would be the features. Like I can see my eyes are more like an African eyes,. The shape of the head. The build of the body. A bit difficult. But I think i am wonderful now and glad to know why we are different to blond blue eyed brigade that I was brought up with and felt so different to. But say you are 1/4 white and 3/4African . You still are different from the indigenous Africans. So we be the same. They get very upset when they find out that instead of having Native American blood they have a bit of European. Could I be from one of those African princesses or descended from slaves. .... Hahaha
It is a misinformation that most slaves were from Ghana which is mostly untrue. Ghana is in the Gold Coast, and the slave port in Ghana were just slave holding facility only for slaves that were brought from interior Africa and were not Ghanaians. Most slaves were taken from what was known as the Slave Coast/Bight of Biafra/Gulf of Guinea and not from the Gold Coast Ghana. These Ghana myths was just street talk before DNA testing came around and has completely disproved the most slave from Ghana myth. DNA testing today of descendants of former slaves, mostly points to Cameroon/Congo/Angola Southern Bantus and Nigeria these are the countries where most of the slaves were taken from and these countries are located at the heart of the Slave Coast and not Ghana which was in the Gold Coast according to DNA. Very few Ghanaians were taken as slaves because at the time, the Ashanti Kingdom was already an established kingdom with a massive standing army, in fact they were hosting these slave holding facilities in the Gold Coast for a price that was being paid to them by the slave buyers and the slaves were brought from the slave Coast and put there before boarding the ships. The slaves were not from the Ashanti Kingdom. In fact, the Ashanti’s even helped hunting the people from the slave Coast and sold them to the buyers at the ports in Gold Coast/Ghana for these are historic facts. One thing that most people must understand is that, 70% of all slaves brought to the Americas were of Bantu Origins and the Ghanaians/Ashantis, are not of Bantu origins. So people in the Americas should do their research about slavery and stop believing in this most slave from Ghana MYTHS. It will also interest you that there’s a slave port of Bimbia located in Cameroon today that was much bigger than that of Ghana and at that time Cameroon and Nigeria was basically one country and these two countries are at the heart of the Slave Coast. Research the Slave Port of Bimbia...
Yes yes!! Blacks should not be flocking to take this test the results can not be accurate. Ask your selves why is this test being pushed more n more on colored folk. I just go to my ancestors dead or alive others please do the same stop running to take this test. My niece took the test it got nothing right. I believe they want to find certain people. If you are of Zulu or certain Bantus mandingo it will not be revealed to you for a reason.
Micheal Hnat you said it right. Historians only told us when the Bantus first arrived in Nigeria/Cameroons before the expansion, but they failed to tell us where the Bantus came from and the built many empires during the migration Some examples of such Bantu states include: in Central Africa, the Kingdom of Kongo, Lunda Empire, Luba Empire of Angola, the Buganda Kingdoms of Uganda and Tanzania; and in Southern Africa, the Mutapa Empire, the Danamombe, Khami, and Naletale Kingdoms of Zimbabwe and Mozambique and the Rozwi Empire.
I am still listening to the video, so perhaps I will hear someone say most slaves came from modern day Ghana. I have been researching the slave trade for 20+ years and I have never came across any information that lead me to believe that the majority of the enslaved came from Modern day Ghana. Modern day Ghana was on the Gold Coast but it was also among the earliest interactions between Africans and Europeans in the 16th century. El Mina. There was no such thing as a "Ghanian" at the time. you said "In fact, the Ashanti’s even helped hunting the people from the slave Coast". Helped? The Ashanit like many other ethnicities regulars raged war with other groups in order to sell other groups to Europeans. The Ashanti who are an Akan people were not always victorious and some of them were sold to Europeans as well by other groups. Bantu is just a language group. The Akan speak a Niger Congo language "Twi" like others in their region. Millions of slaves came out of modern day Ghana over a 300 year period. The slave port in Bimbia? That port was a minor port for the enslved.
JUST BEFORE MY MOM PASSED SHE SHARED AN EXPERIENCE OF HER BEING RAPED BY SEVERAL WHITE MALES. I THEN RECALLED HER DISCLOSING SHE DIDNT RECEIVE MILITARY BENEFITS FOR ME. AFTER I WAS BORN MY FATHER''S SIDE SAID I WAS NOT BLACK (BORN WHITE WITH FRECKLES) WELL I RECEIVED MYHERITAGE DNA RESULTS RECENTLY. EUROPEAN 13.1% CAN I PUT THE ANXIETY OF MY FATHER NOT BEING MY FATHER TO REST?
Wow, that's so cool bro! My family is very ethnically diverse too. So many facial features (although some similarities too), varying skin shades, hair textures, (although mostly naturally straight, or mildly wavy to very wavy), eye shades (mostly darker on my Dad's side), heights, builds, etc;. I love discussing genetics, as it's so damn interesting! I always say to people, We can never stop learning. We're forever evolving & growing in our mindset/intellect. All the best to you.
It's funny how we all see things. To me, he doesn't look @ all like Michael Jordan, certainly not close up, but as i say, we all see things differently. For eg: I saw a Caucasian woman the other day via you tube, who looked like my cousins late wife. When i showed her to my family, they thought so too, but when i showed her to the other side of our family, most of them thought, no, she doesn't. haha It's also like looks. We don't all see others the same way. Hence the well known term.....Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. All the best to you.
I'm a ordinary African American guy. My DNA test revealed I'm L3e1e on my mother's side AND I'm m E-M4254 on my father's side. Basically East African...
Thank you.. you broke the ice... I believe African Ancestry is not exactly accurate on all dna... how do you have maternal dna found in three tribes in Ethiopia and north west Africa but have minimal found in Iberia peninsula and say its European dna... Ethiopia has the oldest civilization .... please help me with this...
@@willa9791 yes my family is definitely not 100% West Africans at least from our database collected thus far and our most recent DNA update in 9/2020 revealed my mother's three brothers show different things like 1% Ethiopian, 1% Middle Eastern, 1% Senegal and 1% Native American. And her first cousin has 1% North Africa... my daughter has 1% Native American and I have 1% Malta... with a connection to pre colonial 1700 Haiti and to Grand Coteau, Louisiana. On average all my family mentioned above are about 60% African and 40% European with Native American.
FET Engineer Africans from Mozambique were shipped via Portuguese ships, your ancestor could have come via Spanish slavery into Caribbean am then through to America. There was a internal trade of goods in Americas included slaves. Your ancestors could be free people who came after slavery. Their are many possibilities. East Africans DNA is also found in some West Africans because of migrations patterns. It's quite complex
@@willa9791 u kind of answered your question. Considering Ethiopian being a older civilization and the location they are more diverse than homogeneous historically.
That's so sad to hear, bec it's so very important, to be open about our roots and to be very proud of it, no matter what anyone thinks or says. When it comes down to familial ancestry, full transparency is definitely the way to go. It's so critical. Why? Because we must all know our ancestral identity and to have that sense of belonging. Belonging to a specific place & peoples. We should all love our world and all the human beings within it, no matter where they hail from, but @ the end of the day, knowing our own personal ancestry/past, fills a huge void and gap within our respective lives. Thus, giving us a better picture of our past, whish equates to a greater sense of humanly purpose. Take care my dear and all the best.
Nice! I hope they find an old skeleton remain in Africa with U6a that's older than U1a in Europe. Then they have give U to the African continent as its origins. The nomenclature will probably change. Mankind is moving from the South to the North (Africa to Europe), Out Of Africa, that's what's up since the Moors landed in 711 AD-1492 ; since Hannibal from Africa went into Europe w/ war elephants during 2nd Punic Wars of ancient Rome 218 BCE; since his father in 243 BCE from Carthage, Tunisia, Africa. North Africa's Carthage was founded in the 9th century BC on the coast of North Africa, in what is now Tunisia. It developed into a significant trading empire throughout the Mediterranean, and was seen as home to a wealthy and brilliant civilization. All AFRICANS mixing with Southern Europe bring Y-chromosome DNA Macrohaplogroups E, A, M, J, R is old in Africa. There before 1528! Guanches People Y-DNA of Canary Islands go back to the Tuareg Tribes of Northern Nigeria like all other Amazigh(pl. Imazighen!) who the Euro scholars call by the misnomer, Berber! it is said that the original inhabitants of the island, Guanches, used to worship dogs, mummified them and treated dogs generally as holy animals.[24] The ancient Greeks also knew about a people, living far to the west, who are the "dog-headed ones", who worshipped dogs on an island.[24]Some hypothesize that the Canary Islands dog-worship and the ancient Egyptian cult of the dog-headed god, Anubis are closely connected[25] but there is no explanation given as to which one was first. Other theories speculate that the name comes from the Nukkari Berber(Amazigh) tribe living in the Moroccan Atlas, named in Roman sources as Canarii, though Pliny again mentions the relation of this term with dogs Gene flow got to go with the written historical record, right?
If it's is unhealthy then if bad lol.. The main thing people need to know how to look after the type hair you have. Eg the English climate dries out typical Afro hai causing breakage, but with added moisture you can limit this problem. Typical Asian straight hair or European type hair would no suffer this problem..
@@matrix2030x My parents are gone and I'm not interested in my parents land. The reason why I move away from my parents is because where I am is better than that land. I don't pretend to love that land which was no good to my parents and me. You?
Northafricans belong to the same group as the arabs. Also by language - its just maybe 15000 years ago when they split. With the islam expansion they got a few percent arabic admixture again. the amount of sub sahara admixture increased only during the last few centuries. Same in egypt. The ancient egyptian skeletons show a very clear near east ancestry only in the last 4 millenias the african influence increased more and more.
@@historyonthego As far as i know, mummies from all times were analyzed and the south sahara part in the DNA increased over time. Probably due to trade and travel contacts with Kusch.
@@anubis6861 What about Sudan? There is lots of SubSahara african in Sudan, yes. In ancient Egypt they called Kusch what we call Sudan now. In historical times many arabic people moved there. Now the original Nubier a nilo-sahara speaking ethnie is a minority only. Nearly 40% are of arabic origin and the biggest group are the Dinka now who are a nilotic people.
@@bettyjenkins2162 - No we don't! Asian Americans might have but I am not one of them! I am talking about people in ASIAN countries. We are confident in our own cultures.
I suppose it depends on which Asian country as Japan colonized other countries in Asia, so for example there are mixtures of Japanese and Korean ancestry...and other countries that were colonized by Japan..also don't forget the American and British colonized countries as well. So maybe 90% for some but I'm pretty sure there are mixtures within different countries in Asia, just like in Africa. America is unique compared to other countries as its population is made up of people from different continents.
I don't know who the haters are here my friend, but we do not pay any attention to such people. We walk tall, we stand tall and we just don't care. All the best & take care. Peace
I truly appreciate Dr Kittles. I took my African Ancestry test and I found out I’m Cameroonian, from the Bamileke people. If he and Dr Gina hadn’t created this company how would I know what woman survived the transatlantic ocean ride, so to speak. I now know a STRONG woman from the Bamileke tribe was a Survivor. So am I 😊
Absolutely fantastic news!! I'm so happy for you, that you've been able to open a door to part of your African ancestry. I too, will soon take my dna test with African Ancestry. Although i am very ethnically diverse, i do know that i possess some African ancestry & i would so love to explore that part of my ancestry & find out exactly, which tribe/s i'm directly connected to & descended from. Take care and all the best.
This was a great lecture and gathering I love Dr. Kittles he's a beast!! And will be going through African Ancestry to take my DNA test.
Maybe you are from Subsaharian Africa ? 🤔🤔🤔
I did mine paternal lineage trace to hausas and mbenzele of Cameroon and maternal lineage to igbo of Nigeria
So much power and knowledge in that room
I understand that many AA who’s lineage takes them back to Spain, on the male side, almost seems common. But why do we assume that it makes them European, didnt the black Arabs rule Spain for 700 years, from approx. 700-1400? There’s plenty of African blood running through Spain.
well...it depends on the haplogroups
the genetic studies show that the Spanish are Europeans with very little African ancestry
The arabs weren't black
The Moors were a mixture of Berber and Arab
they're not necessarily black which is a social construct just like white is
Yeah but those black arabs aren't Spanish lol
Moors weren't "black"
Black Moors, they were not Arabs.
@@xe5309 from firsthand descriptions they are closer to being Black than any other race and just like Blacks and even Arabs they had dark skinned members as well as light but still Black. You can look at paintings of Spaniards/Conquistadors and see that they looked Black/mixed race so try again.
Hi guys, i'm a new subscriber. This is so very interesting to watch & you're all such amazing, interesting, intelligent & beautiful human beings. I loved listening to you all, as each one of you, had such interesting info to share. Also & on a different note, i first saw Dr Rick Kittles & Gina Paige talking genetics, via the entertaining Rock Newman Show, you tube & this is when i first found out about them. I really love listening to Dr Rick Kittle's & Gina Paige. Their discussions are always very interesting to listen to. When i think of the Transatlantic slave trade & America's history, specifically since African's were forcefully transported there, through no fault or wanting of their own, it makes the yearning to know ones roots, even more profound. Most African-American's, unless they take their own DNA test, do not know exactly what parts of Africa, their ancestors hailed, so a DNA test is critical. African Ancestry DNA testing, is so very important & such a wonderful company, for it's owned & operated by African Americans. This is great, because you know that your own DNA test, will come back with much more conclusive & reliable results. It's amazing to think, that via ones DNA, they can even work out, which tribe/s a person is most connected to, genetically speaking. I love African history & i'm interested in African American history, as there's such stories to learn from & even grow from. The African peoples, lost so very much. They lost their communal, familial & cultural structure, their stability, their families, their identities, their many & varied cultures, their livelihoods/homes, etc; when they were taken from their homeland. In ref to the "one drop rule", it's so interesting to note, that "only" in the US, is this noted. Within other countries, you are who you know yourself to be. You are who you are and "not" what Govt stated that you are. If you know you're of mixed ethnicity, you can state this & no one can or will tell you otherwise. There's no law against it, which is great. There's no formal rule book, at the centre of hierarchy, telling people who they are. In Australia, Europe, South Africa, South America, Asia, wherever you head in the world, "you" state who you are & everyone simply listens to what you know yourself to be, without question or judgement. You are free, for the most part, to talk about yourself and your own personal ancestral lineage. The one drop rule is ridiculous, bec essentially it's telling all African Americans, who pretty much all possess some European ancestry & possess ancestry from other global regions too, that they're not regarded as possessing genes from the "other" regions. It's a though, if you possess genes from those other regions, the US Govt didn't always acknowledge this & it's pretty much saying, they're all only African & this is what we see & present them as. I know the imposition of identifying race/ethnicity is different now, bec it's up to the individual as to how they see themselves and describe themselves to be ethnically/racially. This then makes me think, if we're to go back in US history, that the opposite must have also been true. Meaning, so if a fully European person possesses 1% or 2% African ancestry, this must mean they they'd have been African/black, even if they don't look outwardly African, or don't know of any ancestors from Africa, within their more recent ancestry. In truth, i doubt any person of full Caucasian/European ancestry, would have ever admitted that they possessed any African roots. That admittance in & of itself, would have been criminal & would have led to hostile judgement and punishment, etc;. It was surely a scary time for African Americans, because you just never knew what the negative outcomes would be. I do know however, that light skinned Creoles, had somewhat better life opportunities than those who appeared fully African & more dark skinned, but of course, this certainly was not always the case. It's such a shameful history and a blight on European Colonizing history. Back to the one drop rule. It's so strange/weird to outsiders, but we do understand the serious complexities of US history & the negative issues that countless African American peoples have faced there. Just as an add on, there are many ethnic groups, possessing very mixed ethnicity. My South African, Brazilian & Mauritian Creole friends, all possess over 18 ethnicities each, from just about every continent on earth. It's truly amazing to see global genetic structures/inheritances & i always tell them how jealous i am of them! haha Thank you so much for sharing & my best wishes sent to you all.
We are all one big family.
This is a tough crowd... I think he was very funny lol.. he has off beat comedic timing like I do. basically common sense funny.
Oh the look on his face when he didn’t get laughs on that first one
Fascinating
This was very interesting.
Its beyond interesting. It has major insights , profound implications on old beliefs.
Very interesting
Both my maternal and paternal DNA Line go back to Europe, Scotland. How do I find my African tribal affiliation
Take DNA test of mothers
My haplogroups were E-P252 and L3e1
Fantastic my dear brother in Christ. It's great to know our roots, but then again, if ALL humans go back to their earliest ancient ancestors, we know they they all came out of Africa. The cradle of human civilization. All the best to you Sir.
African, not Hebrew.
My interest about Africa just increased as my sister done test and we found she is 1/4 Wesr African We thought we might be a bit Spanish but not African. Our dad was a bit dark but not half black. I m going to have to do mine. As we are English most beople have fair eyes and skin but we have brown eyes and hair like half of Europeans
@darkeagle because my dad went to America in 1922and returned in 1930s* via Spain. Also my grandparents marriage cert show two witnesses with Spanish names. My sister looks like a very fair Jamaican girl I thought it but I hadn t figured it out. But I see her features are curly hair which she has like an afro but less tight curls her eyes, her sense of rhythm, her hot temper and her physical shape plus her head shape looks like Nefetiti which we thought looks very noble and wished mine like it. All I see in my self are those brown eyes and my nose a bit and perhaps my curved shape. European women are straight up and down. I m not like them. I thought I was different. Thank you for asking. But we don't know about the grandfather he divorced my grand ma in London. in 1903!!!! It s a mystery all we know the grand father was in the music hall.
@@alisonnorcross951 her hot temper , smh. So stereotypical.
@@YahLion77 yes she has hot temper but I must have it too but I'm placid.. I guess I would be hot tempered if I could get away with it
@@alisonnorcross951 As a Black Jamaican I would love to hear your definition of a light Jamaican. Jamaicans run the gamut from white to African Black. The whites being descended from the planter class. Throw in descendants of Chinese, Indians, Syrians etc.
@@MA-yh2ko my definition of light Jamaican would be the features. Like I can see my eyes are more like an African eyes,. The shape of the head. The build of the body. A bit difficult. But I think i am wonderful now and glad to know why we are different to blond blue eyed brigade that I was brought up with and felt so different to. But say you are 1/4 white and 3/4African . You still are different from the indigenous Africans. So we be the same. They get very upset when they find out that instead of having Native American blood they have a bit of European. Could I be from one of those African princesses or descended from slaves. .... Hahaha
It is a misinformation that most slaves were from Ghana which is mostly untrue. Ghana is in the Gold Coast, and the slave port in Ghana were just slave holding facility only for slaves that were brought from interior Africa and were not Ghanaians. Most slaves were taken from what was known as the Slave Coast/Bight of Biafra/Gulf of Guinea and not from the Gold Coast Ghana. These Ghana myths was just street talk before DNA testing came around and has completely disproved the most slave from Ghana myth. DNA testing today of descendants of former slaves, mostly points to Cameroon/Congo/Angola Southern Bantus and Nigeria these are the countries where most of the slaves were taken from and these countries are located at the heart of the Slave Coast and not Ghana which was in the Gold Coast according to DNA. Very few Ghanaians were taken as slaves because at the time, the Ashanti Kingdom was already an established kingdom with a massive standing army, in fact they were hosting these slave holding facilities in the Gold Coast for a price that was being paid to them by the slave buyers and the slaves were brought from the slave Coast and put there before boarding the ships. The slaves were not from the Ashanti Kingdom. In fact, the Ashanti’s even helped hunting the people from the slave Coast and sold them to the buyers at the ports in Gold Coast/Ghana for these are historic facts. One thing that most people must understand is that, 70% of all slaves brought to the Americas were of Bantu Origins and the Ghanaians/Ashantis, are not of Bantu origins. So people in the Americas should do their research about slavery and stop believing in this most slave from Ghana MYTHS.
It will also interest you that there’s a slave port of Bimbia located in Cameroon today that was much bigger than that of Ghana and at that time Cameroon and Nigeria was basically one country and these two countries are at the heart of the Slave Coast. Research the Slave Port of Bimbia...
Yes yes!! Blacks should not be flocking to take this test the results can not be accurate. Ask your selves why is this test being pushed more n more on colored folk. I just go to my ancestors dead or alive others please do the same stop running to take this test. My niece took the test it got nothing right. I believe they want to find certain people. If you are of Zulu or certain Bantus mandingo it will not be revealed to you for a reason.
B amazed with this I think you made an interesting point.
Micheal Hnat you said it right. Historians only told us when the Bantus first arrived in Nigeria/Cameroons before the expansion, but they failed to tell us where the Bantus came from and the built many empires during the migration
Some examples of such Bantu states include: in Central Africa, the Kingdom of Kongo, Lunda Empire, Luba Empire of Angola, the Buganda Kingdoms of Uganda and Tanzania; and in Southern Africa, the Mutapa Empire, the Danamombe, Khami, and Naletale Kingdoms of Zimbabwe and Mozambique and the Rozwi Empire.
I am still listening to the video, so perhaps I will hear someone say most slaves came from modern day Ghana. I have been researching the slave trade for 20+ years and I have never came across any information that lead me to believe that the majority of the enslaved came from Modern day Ghana. Modern day Ghana was on the Gold Coast but it was also among the earliest interactions between Africans and Europeans in the 16th century. El Mina.
There was no such thing as a "Ghanian" at the time. you said "In fact, the Ashanti’s even helped hunting the people from the slave Coast". Helped? The Ashanit like many other ethnicities regulars raged war with other groups in order to sell other groups to Europeans. The Ashanti who are an Akan people were not always victorious and some of them were sold to Europeans as well by other groups. Bantu is just a language group. The Akan speak a Niger Congo language "Twi" like others in their region. Millions of slaves came out of modern day Ghana over a 300 year period. The slave port in Bimbia? That port was a minor port for the enslved.
@@bamazedwiththis3591 Very few Zulu would have been involved in the TAST since they are from South Africa.
The woman wearing green is either Delta or Igbo in Nigeria
JUST BEFORE MY MOM PASSED SHE SHARED AN EXPERIENCE OF HER BEING RAPED BY SEVERAL WHITE MALES. I THEN RECALLED HER DISCLOSING SHE DIDNT RECEIVE MILITARY BENEFITS FOR ME. AFTER I WAS BORN MY FATHER''S SIDE SAID I WAS NOT BLACK (BORN WHITE WITH FRECKLES) WELL I RECEIVED MYHERITAGE DNA RESULTS RECENTLY. EUROPEAN 13.1% CAN I PUT THE ANXIETY OF MY FATHER NOT BEING MY FATHER TO REST?
Our stepmother is I dian Irish afro American and assortment of other ethnics.
Wow, that's so cool bro! My family is very ethnically diverse too. So many facial features (although some similarities too), varying skin shades, hair textures, (although mostly naturally straight, or mildly wavy to very wavy), eye shades (mostly darker on my Dad's side), heights, builds, etc;. I love discussing genetics, as it's so damn interesting! I always say to people, We can never stop learning. We're forever evolving & growing in our mindset/intellect. All the best to you.
Can test those woman that are asking questions
My bad I misspelled your name.
I'm 74% sub saharan african 20% European 6% native American
Dr. Kittles, looks a lot like, Michael (former professional basketball player)Jordan.
It's funny how we all see things. To me, he doesn't look @ all like Michael Jordan, certainly not close up, but as i say, we all see things differently. For eg: I saw a Caucasian woman the other day via you tube, who looked like my cousins late wife. When i showed her to my family, they thought so too, but when i showed her to the other side of our family, most of them thought, no, she doesn't. haha It's also like looks. We don't all see others the same way. Hence the well known term.....Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. All the best to you.
I'm a ordinary African American guy. My DNA test revealed I'm L3e1e on my mother's side AND I'm m E-M4254 on my father's side.
Basically East African...
This goes to show we are not just from west africa..
Thank you.. you broke the ice... I believe African Ancestry is not exactly accurate on all dna... how do you have maternal dna found in three tribes in Ethiopia and north west Africa but have minimal found in Iberia peninsula and say its European dna... Ethiopia has the oldest civilization .... please help me with this...
@@willa9791 yes my family is definitely not 100% West Africans at least from our database collected thus far and our most recent DNA update in 9/2020 revealed my mother's three brothers show different things like 1% Ethiopian, 1% Middle Eastern, 1% Senegal and 1% Native American. And her first cousin has 1% North Africa... my daughter has 1% Native American and I have 1% Malta... with a connection to pre colonial 1700 Haiti and to Grand Coteau, Louisiana. On average all my family mentioned above are about 60% African and 40% European with Native American.
FET Engineer Africans from Mozambique were shipped via Portuguese ships, your ancestor could have come via Spanish slavery into Caribbean am then through to America. There was a internal trade of goods in Americas included slaves. Your ancestors could be free people who came after slavery. Their are many possibilities. East Africans DNA is also found in some West Africans because of migrations patterns. It's quite complex
@@willa9791 u kind of answered your question. Considering Ethiopian being a older civilization and the location they are more diverse than homogeneous historically.
NEVER ANY MENTION OF COLOR NOR ANCESTRY IN MY FAMILY. AT 70 I'M CURIOUS
rwilliams2290 Have you a test?
There is only one race. The. Human race created by God and god is perfect so stop judging. Others. And learn to love.
That's so sad to hear, bec it's so very important, to be open about our roots and to be very proud of it, no matter what anyone thinks or says. When it comes down to familial ancestry, full transparency is definitely the way to go. It's so critical. Why? Because we must all know our ancestral identity and to have that sense of belonging. Belonging to a specific place & peoples. We should all love our world and all the human beings within it, no matter where they hail from, but @ the end of the day, knowing our own personal ancestry/past, fills a huge void and gap within our respective lives. Thus, giving us a better picture of our past, whish equates to a greater sense of humanly purpose. Take care my dear and all the best.
Nice! I hope they find an old skeleton remain in Africa with U6a that's older than U1a in Europe. Then they have give U to the African continent as its origins. The nomenclature will probably change. Mankind is moving from the South to the North (Africa to Europe), Out Of Africa, that's what's up since the Moors landed in 711 AD-1492 ; since Hannibal from Africa went into Europe w/ war elephants during 2nd Punic Wars of ancient Rome 218 BCE; since his father in 243 BCE from Carthage, Tunisia, Africa.
North Africa's Carthage was founded in the 9th century BC on the coast of North Africa, in what is now Tunisia. It developed into a significant trading empire throughout the Mediterranean, and was seen as home to a wealthy and brilliant civilization.
All AFRICANS mixing with Southern Europe bring Y-chromosome DNA Macrohaplogroups E, A, M, J, R is old in Africa. There before 1528!
Guanches People Y-DNA of Canary Islands go back to the Tuareg Tribes of Northern Nigeria like all other Amazigh(pl. Imazighen!) who the Euro scholars call by the misnomer, Berber!
it is said that the original inhabitants of the island, Guanches, used to worship dogs, mummified them and treated dogs generally as holy animals.[24] The ancient Greeks also knew about a people, living far to the west, who are the "dog-headed ones", who worshipped dogs on an island.[24]Some hypothesize that the Canary Islands dog-worship and the ancient Egyptian cult of the dog-headed god, Anubis are closely connected[25] but there is no explanation given as to which one was first.
Other theories speculate that the name comes from the Nukkari Berber(Amazigh) tribe living in the Moroccan Atlas, named in Roman sources as Canarii, though Pliny again mentions the relation of this term with dogs
Gene flow got to go with the written historical record, right?
There were Africans in Europe long before 711.
@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 - Yeah, the ones that migrated out of East Africa, like, 70,000 years ago.
Majority from west Africa but they do have some from other parts
As a Baptist pastor, my husband used to say that everyone can trace their roots to a drunk sailor. (Genesis 9:18-21)
Hmm, I think I "know a" guy who fits that description LOL
Haha, I know I can 😂
1 Tim 12:2 . Full stop
The discussion is scientific rather than voodoo? Madam
No, not a sailor but an African woman. We all come from her.
yaaaaaas
All Hair,
Is Good Hair
If it's is unhealthy then if bad lol.. The main thing people need to know how to look after the type hair you have. Eg the English climate dries out typical Afro hai causing breakage, but with added moisture you can limit this problem. Typical Asian straight hair or European type hair would no suffer this problem..
(27:00) Dr. Kittles Chromosome 15
hahaha Hi BLACK ZION (cool name btw), yes, that too, made me laugh, but it's so very interesting isn't it?! I hope you're well. All the best.
You never defined me meaning of non African and the first non Africans.
You are interested in your ancestors but anyone of you are interested in to move back to your ancestor land?
Your comment has no place here
are u interested in moving back in with ur parents
@@matrix2030x My parents are gone and I'm not interested in my parents land. The reason why I move away from my parents is because where I am is better than that land. I don't pretend to love that land which was no good to my parents and me.
You?
@@xchen3079 The Earth was, and is a black planet. Black people belong wherever they wish to be. Your comment tells much about you.
@@dranchd6571 Unfortunate to you the earth is a bright planet and black people belong to where they were. Your comment does tell much about you.
Northafricans belong to the same group as the arabs. Also by language - its just maybe 15000 years ago when they split. With the islam expansion they got a few percent arabic admixture again. the amount of sub sahara admixture increased only during the last few centuries. Same in egypt. The ancient egyptian skeletons show a very clear near east ancestry only in the last 4 millenias the african influence increased more and more.
Test done in Egypt only test mummies from a late period.
@@historyonthego As far as i know, mummies from all times were analyzed and the south sahara part in the DNA increased over time. Probably due to trade and travel contacts with Kusch.
Michael Weskamp I guess will have to confirm the info again... This has been a long debate from decades.
@@mweskamppp Are you serious? Sudan is a joke to you? Get over it, it belongs to the Sudanese, Ethiopians and Somalis
@@anubis6861 What about Sudan? There is lots of SubSahara african in Sudan, yes. In ancient Egypt they called Kusch what we call Sudan now. In historical times many arabic people moved there. Now the original Nubier a nilo-sahara speaking ethnie is a minority only. Nearly 40% are of arabic origin and the biggest group are the Dinka now who are a nilotic people.
Interesting - we Asians don't have these issues.
Yes you do Asians have the same issues.
@@bettyjenkins2162 - No we don't! Asian Americans might have but I am not one of them! I am talking about people in ASIAN countries. We are confident in our own cultures.
@@Ancupola yes I do agree with you
Yes, and you all look as if you have the same father.
I suppose it depends on which Asian country as Japan colonized other countries in Asia, so for example there are mixtures of Japanese and Korean ancestry...and other countries that were colonized by Japan..also don't forget the American and British colonized countries as well. So maybe 90% for some but I'm pretty sure there are mixtures within different countries in Asia, just like in Africa. America is unique compared to other countries as its population is made up of people from different continents.
Why it always gotta be a hater ?
I don't know who the haters are here my friend, but we do not pay any attention to such people. We walk tall, we stand tall and we just don't care. All the best & take care. Peace
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Funny dude
Why is it that every time this man speaks he has to take shots at our grandparents for telling us we are indigenous
Because it is something that many of us have in common and in most cases it is not true.
Our grand parents said this because of the embarrassment of being mix with white.. that's why
wow
@Green Yoshi hi
That good hair bad hair terms is a shameful terms mainly used by ignorant individuals there are no such thing
He looks Hausa, no doubt
What a shame!
I'm White I just lost interest when I read: Duke University
Why
I love learning about this stuff.