I think African Americans should have the US government cover the cost for the test, it being their fault that we don’t know where we come from and all.
rdokoye actually no all slave traders and owners done that, for exactly that reason 'to heard and muster' without issues. My goodness Africans till THIS DAY are still slave trading their fellow Africans www.cnbc.com/2017/04/28/libya-has-become-a-torture-archipelago-for-migrants-sold-into-slavery.html There are many more articles and evidence around this..
rdokoye the sad thing is, no one seems to care about the hell in what is happening THIS DAY around the world, instead Americans are in the own little bubble waiting all their energy on a stupid race war that makes no sense and means nothing..the rest of the world are laughing at you all .. pathetic...
I do not know my DNA African ancestry. Let it be known, I am very proud to be Christian African American/black woman. Praise Jesus for my melanin skin, my kinky hair, and my full lips.
@Mama Africa Jesus died on Calvary's cross for the sins of all people, that includes slaves and slave masters. It is our personal choice to believe or not. Know this for a fact some day, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
I'm born in America my dna text shows I'm Nigerian and jamaica and that's what I say I am rather if I'm not accepted long as I know who I am and where my people come from
Jordan G. I think she means that Quad looks Nigerian ...lol. But even the way that Quad speaks , her gesticulation and general over the top-ness mirrors how a lot of Nigerians are
Please don’t believe white people ONLY stole Africans from the coasts . Africa says they took them from ALL over Africa.. and it wasn’t 12 million .. it was OVER 60 million Africans savagely removed and trafficked by whites off the continent from ALL over Africa.. The information on the slave ships manifestoes talks about how the people of Africa in the center in the west in the north and the south of Africa was attacked and captured by Europeans , Africans built walls and forts and actually told European government. They were not interested in this trade that they were betraying the deal that they made that they would be taking prisoners of war and the white people still came. African kings said you are emptying our lands kidnapping Our people, and these were not primitive people in the bush as white people like to say these were dignitaries these were officials .. this is so frightening that white people and the people they commissioned broke into peoples homes and communities and took them to foreign lands by force, to come into your home or your community and raid it and take black human bodies destroy them human traffic them dehumanized them rape them, rob them of their culture, their history, their language take them away from their family, take away their names and their languages and their religions their heritage to a whole Other land for the sole, selfish, self-serving purpose of enslaving people making them work for free to make white people rich, calling the people they barbarically took from their homeland animals when the animals were the white people who did that to Africa and its people.. . Scary
As African ....Somalian 🇸🇴 to be precise I encourage every African American to take a DNA test and then go to Africa just to breathe in that African air and I promise you’ll never perceive yourself as the same person Not in negative way but in positive , content and proud rebirth way
Greetings to all my African American brothers and sisters. I’m from Senegal, West Africa, and it always makes me very happy to see African Americans who embrace and celebrate their African roots. I advise all my African American brothers and sisters who have the financial means to go and visit the motherland; you won’t regret it. Please If you see stupid people claiming to be Africans and making negative comments below just consider them trolls who use the anonymity of the Internet to sow seeds of hatred, but they don’t represent the views of most Africans. I can tell you personally that if you visit Senegal, you will discover great historic sites, great food and culture, but most importantly very welcoming people. We should never forget that we’re the same people. Peace and Love to all my African American brothers and sisters, from your Senegalese brother who has a lot of respect and admiration for you.
Same! I always thought I was 50% Italian & 50% Polish but I did my test & found 25% German but I accept it & embrace it! I'm very proud. We should all be proud of where we came from. I knew a boy from Laos and the only thing he knew about his country is that it was "the most bombed country on earth" so I told him to learn more and be proud.
@@savifossi3632 this is coming from a somali. i will never NOT embrace the middle eastern procentage i have inside of me, when my people were starving and dying it was the arabs who saved us. you guys tried to sell us and colonize us. gambia is the only west african country that got my love, the rest of yall is trash and thats it
I'm Nigerian but I am so happy that African -American people are finally trying to see their roots and where they come from. Home which is in AFRICA is the place for us
Black Americans always wanted to know. Its the lack of resources and knowing where to look that halted the process. Closure and fulfill is granted once you can fully understand where you come from.
AnaLee Granny that’s not 💯 correct. Lemme tell u some facts. African slaves always had had an African attachment. That the reason why some Afr Am cultures are still very similar with Africans tribes( music passion for ex). Going back in Africa was one of the option they had to avoid slavery. What the white guys did was make them believe they were better slaves in America than masters in “poor and devastating “Africa . The next generation knew Africa through white media. Therefore, who wanna be identified with what was portrayed . In other words, they were telling them actually slavery saved you from that. And they believed it in some way and started focusing their fight in their new home or land, plus the new country was build essentially by them; so it was fair why not fighting to have ours shares. Being Africans was kinda insulting(I’m exaggerated a little bit but still )for Afr Am back then. When Afr Am fathers started traveling around the world after 1865, they rediscovered Africa and understood the importance to be unified and reconnected through pan-Africanism. From there, their battle have been very hard because of the mindset and the idea Afr Am had about the continent. The movement is now kinda successful because there’s a new way to fight the media monopoly through internet. And people are getting information by themselves and don’t just run with whatever. They have a better understanding of the continent and found a lot of stuff to be proud of theirs identities. And the idea that African sold Afr Am was created to seperate us while white people even installed colonialism to take advantage of Africa because they discovered our wealthy it is and didn’t want AA to be aware of that...there’s so much we can say, but I leave it at that
Greetings to all my African American brothers and sisters. I’m from Senegal, West Africa, and it always makes me very happy to see African Americans who embrace and celebrate their African roots. I advise all my African American brothers and sisters who have the financial means to go and visit the motherland; you won’t regret it. Please If you see stupid people claiming to be Africans and making negative comments below just consider them trolls who use the anonymity of the Internet to sow seeds of hatred, but they don’t represent the views of most Africans. I can tell you personally that if you visit Senegal, you will discover great historic sites, great food and culture, but most importantly very welcoming people. We should never forget that we’re the same people. Peace and Love to all my African American brothers and sisters, from your Senegalese brother who has a lot of respect and admiration for you.
Facts! I'm going home next year and I hope the experience is like or better than my experience to the Caribbean. We must get out of America to see how the World views and celebrates us and feel our connections to our roots.
Just a quick correction - I'm Nigerian. Hausas are NOT business minded - its actually the Igbos. The Yoruba s are VERY educationally inclined. Hausas are nomads and herd cattles. Again, not everyone fits the bill but generally.
The hausas used to be, alot of commercial business in the early years, the groundnut pyramid, the gold souks many years ago etc. But most Nigerians like myself I am Edo are inherently Business minded.
I ordered my ancestry kit. lts on the way. I know I’m going to cry. Knowing my heritage & amazing tribes I come from. I cannot wait! I think I’m Nigerian. My personality is Nigerian!
Shout out to all the African queens. Quad not surprise at all..she has the traits.. Now the Mende chic absolutely acuruate info. She has the gap and I am so proud to be a Mende chic as well...
Aminata Moses I just got my African Ancestory results back and I am Mende on my mother’s side. Since then I’ve been trying to find Mende’s here in Atlanta 😌
As an African from the continent, I really want to trace my DNA too. My tribe migrated a lot, always fleeing the most insecure coast to safest shelters, so 300 years my tribe was not stable. I really want to know who I am. My tribe is labeled Akan from the Ivory Coast, but I feel like my ancestry goes far beyond the Akan land.
I watched this video again today, I loved it, I am from the Yoruba Tribe in Nigeria, I am currently in the UK. My Sister from Nigeria I am here to help if you are ready to come home. Shalom!
Gladys Wangari it's really not rare you know Cameroon is considered as central Africa the Congo is considered central Africa Angola a lot of African Americans have that Heritage to it all depends on what part of the country you come from you'll find Central Africa around Louisiana a lot but East Africa is very rare Lonnie from the show the real took the DNA test and she found out she was from East Africa
Gladys Wangari the majority of from West African but you have a lot of central Africa to they even have a town in Louisiana named Angola name after the Angolan slaves who brought their to work they estimate 60% of African Americans are West African descent and the other 40% is from central Africa if you look online you'll see a lot of African Americans who have Congo ancestry even the lady that's doing the test ancestors came from Cameroon That central Africa
The test is on point. Being a 100% African, I can agree by looking at y'all. And Miss Quad, you're Yorobah girl😂😂. Kianna, no doubt your face says it all. The gap is common in that part and they said men married women just for that. Rashan, you better own it Chile, the Fulas are considered the most beautiful ppl next to Ethiopians on the Continent! Hey sistas!!😂😂😂
tilly johnson fulanis are beautiful no doubt been to west africa they look like somalif or the most part but comparing fulanis which is a tribe to ethiopian which is a country is kinda funny and yes ethiopians are beautiful too been to eastern africa as well
All Africans are equally beautiful sis don’t feed into one country having more beautiful people than another. That’s what society has pinned us to believe.
brwnish eyes + Who the hell you think you are to judge Africans like that. People like you are the reasons something is wrong with Americans in diaspora can't connect to their roots and people of the African continent. You are not helping with that myopic mindset.
brwnish eyes + If you care for nothing about Africans, You must really be upset with yourself. No fault of Africans. Majority of Africans are grandiose people and they know it and the whole world knows it. There is a very special group of Africans doing wonderful things right now as we speak for the motherland. I am not going to mention these crop of Africans for you. Make your own research. If you think you are better than them because you live in a diminishing country called America, you are deluding yourself. I feel sad for you because you seem to have no knowledge whatsoever about that continent and how are Africans more guilty of divisive tactics against you than African Americans. Could you elaborate more cause I am really balled over with the premise of that assertion?
brwnish eyes + What a bunch of malarkey.........I can't have a decent discourse with someone like you who is incredibly intellectually dishonest and deluded with an overbearing self-worth. The most educated people in the West and the world over are Nigerians according to a FORBES MAGAZINE RESEARCH CARRIED OUT A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO. More educated than the Asians, Jews, Caucasians, Afro-Caribbeans African Americans AND FROM THE LAST TIME I CHECKED NIGERIANS ARE AFRICANS. What about the Nigerian entertainment industries that are spreading like wildfire all over the globe. They invented their own music genre called afrobeats with a film industry dubbed Nollywood that your own Hollywood is trailing right now. They are also exporting their culture and fashion which is receiving world attention and acclaim. Africans don't have time for someone like you who supposedly have been to school but the school is not coming out them. I have to say goodbye at this juncture because I will never learn something of worth from you. The scales are heavy under your eyes and it's a shame that you don't even know so. Goodbye superior being. I hope that you have a wonderful life with that kind of disposition.
brwnish eyes Your Black Israelite mantra is rubbish. Go get tested and find out that you’ll have 0-2% Jewish ancestry. (If you were all actually real Israelites, the number would be much higher.) You’ll probably have none, but you should go get tested, unless of course you’re scared!! 🤣🤣😂😂 and by the way, I recommend KKK nut jobs to go and get tested too... since they think their blood is so ‘pure’,.. the more of them we can prove wrong, the better too!!
Welcome sister, we yorubas are predominantly on the west coast of Nigeria,but also extend into Benin republic. Hope get to listen to your language one day.
@@takeshiadavis have look youtube or online and see what the tests entail and how significant it isn't and how very little it says about where your origins lie.
the spelled Guinea Bissau wrong in the first reading. Syleena's people are also bordering Congo, and we know how lit Congolese music is. It also makes sense with her creole heritage as people from the Congo were taken to New Orleans.
There's even a place in New orleans called "Congo Square" where enslaved Africans gathered on sundays to play music & dance. Many of them had their origins in the Congo, Angola, Cameroon, Gabon & Equatorial Guinea (all countries where the majority speak bantu-languages)
You can't always tell my sister did a test 99% African.It showed like 8 countries we are Haitian most likely many tribes also.I am small framed all over.My sister is medium frame.
Somali girl from East Africa here watching the ladies find out where they're from made me cry ❤️🫂 big hug to my African American brothers and sisters please visit Africa and connect with your roots
It is important for every African American to look at their ancestory no matter how it might turn out.I am of Congolese decent and I want all of my Afrikan-American Brothas and Sistas to know their history.
have you looked at british ie anglosaxon people before? or americans pre braces? gaps are universal, however, the celebration of them as a beauty trait mostly African.
Quad fit Nigeria. . Nigerian woman are extremely driven very sapiosexual the hausa are all about making that money. I'm from Cameroon living the USA. And pursue my Dnp ( doctor in nurse practice in psych / geriatric ) I love me Quad she is such beautiful human being. Thanks sister circle. May God bless u all gorgeous
I am Somalian and even though Rashan is darker than me, she could COMPLETELY pass for a North African. She looks like an even blend of Arab and Central African...like someone from Libya or Mali. It's not always about complexion, she has the phenotype.'
All west Africans came for the east. Yoruba and Luhya of Kenya are same people according to 1000 genome project. All the above carry E1b1a y dna a brother to Somoli E1b1b. Most Somoli carry l3 mtdna. SAME IS true for Amhara(habesha). Yet Habesha l3 , l5 came from Luhya bantu according 1000 genome project. Bantu carry all the mtdna of Africa lo to l7 . L3 mutated and created all non African y dna and it is the youngest of the 7 mtdna(maternal).
I knew that lady with the gap tooth was from my tribe the mande people, i get the vibe from her, and when the lady say Guinea biseau i knew she was mande
I took another test, and what she said at the end is so true. I am 91% Sub Saharan African and 9% White. However it was discovered that my great grandmother was 100% West African meaning that she probably came over post civil war. However my father's DNA was part of the trans Atlantic trade through the Bahamas. The 9% is from an Ancestor that is my 5 time great grand parent who was 100% White who lived between 1700 and 1760. My MT DNA is L2af1 and my PT is E-P252
I mean no harm but just wanna add: biblically, God told Abraham i think, to depart from his father's land and go to a new land of milk and honey. My point is that you don't really have to go back to the land of your ancestors if it's not going to serve you any purpose unless you think it will. I used the bible as a historical framework, so hope that didn't offend if you are not into the Christian religion.
@@rachelzol6520 Christianity is a false religion made by a Roman emperor named Constantine. The Romans destroyed ancient Jerusalem in 70 AD, so when Jesus told the israelities to flee into the mountains wha mountains you think he was talking about? Africa and that’s where they are till this day.
I took this company's test as well and they said I share maternal DNA with both the Yoruba and Fulani people living in Nigeria. I think more people should take the test for sure. The more samples they collect the more accurate they'll be. :)
@Emilian Chux, if you're Nigerian and you didn't know that Hausas were business people then you need Nigerian history classes. Yes Hausas were business people that's why the Hausa language is spoken in most west African countries as a trade language/lingua franca. Hausas travelled the whole of west Africa trading with neighbouring empires before the arrival of the Europeans.
Really loved the show!!! And the results were really impressive and physically accidentally accurate. Now my question is, against whose African samples have they made the matches of the african american people?
How bout for the Irish? Let's figure out where all the native Americans are from. Let's get real. You can go back. There are many racists that would put a ship in the water for you. I do not begrudge you your joy in finding your past but don't charge me and mine for it. I am no richer than the project families. I am on social security. You have great lives, lovely clothes opportunities you would never have in Africa no matter what your status or desirability.
@@ellenl.5581 The Germans still pay damages to the Jews and Israel for the Jewish holocaust. I mean, the costs of one test isn't comparable to what a Jew gets, so why shouldn't African Americans get something back that was stolen from them because of the African holocaust? FYI, you aren't charged, the government is.
Hammer Candy how about the Irish?You live in a white privileged heaven.And if you are living as people in the projects,you are two time looser.No way you should be poor living in a white privileged society..What boat took away The Irish as slaves,if anything you were “indentured slaves” paying off a debt.Your humanity was never taken from to work as free labor servant slaves of possession.
@@MaricellaAlaniz afro carribean with genes compatible with the sample dna they collected in Nigeria. If I take the test, I could be more than 60% Ghanaian. Maybe it's best to read up on how these tests work, and basic, mandelion genetics. Knowing where your grandparents are from tells you more about your ancestry than these tests. May ask how much you paid for it? I've heard it is quite expensive.
Yeah sure the gap teeth we call it open teeth and the folds in the neck we call it cut neck, those are just few but when you have those too, then you are a beauty. Welcome me salone sister. Every girl wish to have open teeth or cut neck in SierraLeone.
To all my Nigerian brothers and sisters who are critiquing the show and its inaccuracies, why don't you do an ancestry show for the Blacks in the diaspora to present accurate information instead of coming to the Black diaspora and criticizing the people while benefiting from the blood, sweat and tears of these same people your ancestors sold.
Europeans usually bought enslaved people who were captured in endemic warfare between African states. Some Africans had made a business out of capturing Africans from neighboring ethnic groups or war captives and selling them. A reminder of this practice is documented in the Slave Trade Debates of England in the early 19th century: "All the old writers... concur in stating not only that wars are entered into for the sole purpose of making slaves, but that they are fomented by Europeans, with a view to that object." Europeans fomented this economic trade. But, europeans didn't kidnapped anyone. This catastrophe is to ''blame'' on old europeans and old african leaders, that preferred ''money'' over the life of human beings. As it does today, btw.
Valentino Gambino As an ijaw royalty i can tell you that Slavery in Nigeria or south south Nigeria wasn't the same as Europe or Arab I'll tell you why there were no castrations, no forced labour, a slave could be king example King Jaja of Opobo was an igbo man enslaved and bought by an Ijaw King he became King, in Europe Americas and Arabia all these were impossible. 2. That Africa/ijaws made slaves was a lie we only bought those who had been captured and we're going to be shipped, but some Ijaws were slaves? Yes, because the Europeans had an agreement that we give them criminals instead of drowning them (death sentence) we hand them to the Europeans and the pressure kept mounting for slaves. 3. Why didn't you fight back? A small ethnic group with villages in clusters through Nigeria Gabon and Sierra Leone, war canoes at the time were not suffisticated enough to defeat the colonialists so we had to strick a deal with them, they were to recognise our king, not attack us etc on our part not attack them (don't laugh we had war canoes and cannons although we would have lost but they would have lost a ship and some men atleast) then for trade you give us the guys you want to sentence to death and you allow us passage to transport slaves (at the time we didn't know how slaves were treated in Europe or Americas) like I told you above how we treated them. 4 why did you guys accept easily?
Tosin Ojo 4. Why accept so easily? If we rejected we had to be ready for war + they weren't the first whites/Europeans we had seen the portuguese did business and were nice to us atleast. Benin kingdom was razed to the ground and their great walls demolished, 500 villages burnt, their palace, ceremonial masks and places of worship etc looted and plundered, women and foodstuffs taken meanwhile the ijaws or kalabari in particular had been moving closer to the Atlantic to avoid conflict with other tribes So the british had destroyed Benin city after the Oba refused to sign a treaty to make benin a British protectorate the british sent their royal navy and ordered that the Oba be beheaded or hung upon capture this happened to our ijaws brothers (3000 known works of art excluding priceless well carved palace doors were shared round the world till today uk and us and europe makes money off those art pieces eg New york has the Queen Idia mask, uk has too many and they have refused to return it infact we were told to pay to lease it for a period of time so that Nigerians can see them) and my people were known for avoiding conflicts as much as possible and had strong relationship with the Portuguese before the British came. Finally before the disrespectful British the Portuguese had taken the son of the Oba (ruler/king) of Benin Oba Esigie to Portugal to better diplomatic ties after the King refused them access deeper into Africa and he had a nice time came back with many gifts so most people assumed the slaves would atleast get 1/10th of what the prince got but unfortunately it was not so. Till today the British have refused to give us access to documents they have both ours and the ones written by the their mecenaries so we can know more. I just wish you guys would not generalise the most racially, cuturally, ethnically, linguistically diverse continent in the world. I pray you look at each group individually and look for that group who sold their people and stop being ignorant no one ever says Asians are poor even though their rural areas still are and only 25 years ago China's cities were underdeveloped and really poor... Europeans are barbaric even though our minds picture of barbarians are white cave people... but always Africans are underdeveloped or sold themselves etc Europeans enslaved Europeans Arabs enslaved Arabs. in Africa very very few groups enslaved themselves the only group in Nigeria that I know did that was the Igbo but even they a caste system and when slavery became profitable things went out of hand and people added innocent people or disadvantaged people, unnecessary wars took place, people used religion to steal people and claimed the gods took them away because they were guilty of something and the igbos are business minded people. But ignorantly people say Nigeria or southern Nigeria when the British came they found out they couldn't control us because we didn't have one God or one king unlike the Fulanis and hausa's they didn't know which group was aligned with which or against which so they needed time to figure it out. So there plan was be friends with the scanty water people since they have too few people and control the waterways cause the Igbos who had population and controlled nothing we needed at the time
I paid $667.00 for my son to be DNA tested, so I got the results for both X and Y. Yes, alot of surprisingly groups, but my adult children are so together, they're not interested in even glancing at the pages. 🤗
Am am a fulani too welcome to the African family as a general as we are all black African no matter of your nationality we are just uniting as a race ✊✊✊
I’m 100% indian and I absolutely loved this video. I hope every African American person is able to trace their lineage at some point in their life just to get some knowledge about their roots. It’s important.
Wow. Watching this from Ireland. It's so cool seeing the reactions of these women rediscovering what was once tried to be denied. Never knew 65% of African American men could trace their paternal line to Europe. It makes sense when one reads on the history of transatlantic slavery and listens to the numerous slave narratives wrote. Was a horrible institution. From them hardships came a strong a very strong and soulful people. As an irishman I take inspiration of how African Americans can rise and conquer from such a trying place. Can keep doing ye
This is so important. My mother is Afro-Cuban and my father is from Spain. I can trace my Spaniard roots, but that Afro part really gets me. I practice Ifa and pride myself in my hat small part of my ancestry
Most blacks in America are from 5 specific countries Ghana Nigeria Part of Cameroon Sierra Leone Gambia These are uk major countries and they have their major castles in Ghana about 10+ for shipments
West Africa majority muslims country I am really interested in African history Sorry I if pushed my religion in it bc I am Muslim i would like know my people
U Saddique it’s not factor here . After post colonialism Muslim spread across . The real and indigenous people are not Muslims . Especially countries of uk are not predominantly Muslims but traditional and Christianity dominate there . Nigeria Ghana Gambia Sierra Leone
Look, I am from Nigeria and I knew, I just knew Quad's ancestry would be in Nigeria! She certainly looks Yoruba and displays their characteristics to a T!
I'm North African and recently my sister took a dna test and we are part from Sierra Leone, and it makes so much sense bc my mom has a gap in her teeth too
Being an African and have traveled to many African countries, the test was spot on and I could guess each of their ancestral heritage before the results.
Maime Ricks I’m African American and it kind of makes me jealous that you have this ability to look at their faces, these Black American faces, and tell where they are from and I cannot. Other African commenters have said the same thing as you.
ManPursueExcellence awwww... So Sorry my dear, it is only because of me traveling extensively around Africa. There are some Africans who cannot detect that either. Don't worry , I can teach you. Lol
ⵜⴰⵏⵉⵔⵉ ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⴳⵀ Welll, to make it balanced. I can easily tell Ethiopians or Eritreans apart from other groups. Sometimes I can recognize Nigerians. Some folks from Ghana kinda look like American blacks, at least the lighter ones. I’ve come across more of the first two groups, here in the States.
Gary , I can sometimes place them between several tribes because once you see the person picture or see them in person it makes it a little easier. I often told my coworkers the same but most did not want to do their ancestry DNA to make sure what I am saying is accurate.
Why now you agree to be Africans, when you never wanted to be ? We Africans are very much happy to have you all coming back to your foundation.We are all in agreement that you come back home, but no violence we do not want guns in homes.
I think African Americans should have the US government cover the cost for the test, it being their fault that we don’t know where we come from and all.
Kiandra Hall you don't want that they might use it to send them back or use dna for eugenics after they say it is government property
Kiandra Hall actually it wasn't the American Government's fault, it was the slave traders fault some of who were Africans... anywho
ur a souther sistaaaaa from the sisterhood, right?!
rdokoye actually no all slave traders and owners done that, for exactly that reason 'to heard and muster' without issues. My goodness Africans till THIS DAY are still slave trading their fellow Africans www.cnbc.com/2017/04/28/libya-has-become-a-torture-archipelago-for-migrants-sold-into-slavery.html
There are many more articles and evidence around this..
rdokoye the sad thing is, no one seems to care about the hell in what is happening THIS DAY around the world, instead Americans are in the own little bubble waiting all their energy on a stupid race war that makes no sense and means nothing..the rest of the world are laughing at you all .. pathetic...
In most Africa the gap is considered a sign of beauty.
Wangui Kariuki
I have a gap and to be honest it helps highlights my beauty
I’m in Love with it
I’m from Guyana 🇬🇾 in South American
You mean a gap between the two front teeth? (I like those... it looks cute and it adds personality to a smile)
I myself have the GAP
Also Being first Generation From Sierra Leone Living in America
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As an African it made me cry to see my sister crying when they told her about her ancestry 😢 🤗 ❤️🇿🇦
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Thats how most of us feel when we find out our ancestry. We love Africa deep in our soul🥺❤️🌍
so did i ‼️It’s very emotional to finally found out who and where you come from when that has been robbed from you!
She's not ur sister but sisters of west Africa and central africa
@@joyuyoke4999 You are damb and stupid.
As a Nigerian, this makes me so excited and emotional to watch...especially seeing how excited and happy AAs are to know their roots.
I do not know my DNA African ancestry. Let it be known, I am very proud to be Christian African American/black woman. Praise Jesus for my melanin skin, my kinky hair, and my full lips.
Moonbaby07 it makes me cry that’s some Nigerians still don’t respect it
@Mama Africa Jesus died on Calvary's cross for the sins of all people, that includes slaves and slave masters. It is our personal choice to believe or not. Know this for a fact some day, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Super Excited!!!!
I'm born in America my dna text shows I'm Nigerian and jamaica and that's what I say I am rather if I'm not accepted long as I know who I am and where my people come from
I could have told you Quad was Nigerian before any of this
Jordan G. I think she means that Quad looks Nigerian ...lol. But even the way that Quad speaks , her gesticulation and general over the top-ness mirrors how a lot of Nigerians are
Ben Ola she looks, dress n act like a Nigerian woman.😂
Ben Ola yep lol
Jordan G. Yup
As soon as they said Nigerian, I saw a Nigerian woman in her all the way. Wow
I took AA test and got a result of Yoruba
Selena’s Central African Republic great-grandmother “walked” and survived that journey to the coast. So, she comes from an immensely strong woman!
SHE IS VERY PRETTY
she looks like a Bantu
Please don’t believe white people ONLY stole Africans from the coasts . Africa says they took them from ALL over Africa.. and it wasn’t 12 million .. it was OVER 60 million Africans savagely removed and trafficked by whites off the continent from ALL over Africa.. The information on the slave ships manifestoes talks about how the people of Africa in the center in the west in the north and the south of Africa was attacked and captured by Europeans , Africans built walls and forts and actually told European government. They were not interested in this trade that they were betraying the deal that they made that they would be taking prisoners of war and the white people still came. African kings said you are emptying our lands kidnapping Our people, and these were not primitive people in the bush as white people like to say these were dignitaries these were officials .. this is so frightening that white people and the people they commissioned broke into peoples homes and communities and took them to foreign lands by force, to come into your home or your community and raid it and take black human bodies destroy them human traffic them dehumanized them rape them, rob them of their culture, their history, their language take them away from their family, take away their names and their languages and their religions their heritage to a whole Other land for the sole, selfish, self-serving purpose of enslaving people making them work for free to make white people rich, calling the people they barbarically took from their homeland animals when the animals were the white people who did that to Africa and its people.. .
Scary
The woman is part of her tribe doesn’t mean she comes from that woman
As African ....Somalian 🇸🇴 to be precise I encourage every African American to take a DNA test and then go to Africa just to breathe in that African air and I promise you’ll never perceive yourself as the same person Not in negative way but in positive , content and proud rebirth way
Defiantly going to buy this test and visit W.Africa
Will be there on Friday
We don't want to go to Africa lmao it's a reason why y'all move to the USA and not the other way around
@@young-blk-investor1059 and you my friend are ignorant
@@its_ayannah8083 you my friend are a stupid bitch
I am a Nigerian from Igbo tribe. Well come my sisters .🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
CudJoe Lewis is my ancestor.
I'm literally crying ! SO beautiful to meet yourself through your ancestry.
Looking at Quad she fit the Nigerian bill almost 100%
TheFinespice
She doesn't look Nigerian at all
Yudah El what does she look like are you Nigerian? Can you tell me who looks like my people more than my people.
That's that Yoruba.
She doesn't just look Nigerian, she is Yoruba too the core with her look. Maybe she's even from my hometown.... Wish thinking lol
Not just looking at her, how she acts. She's very vocal, kinda loud and can be quite funny Lol. A very Nigerian trait.
I'm over 90 % African, over 50 % Nigerian and then 2 % Persian. I claim it all and so proud. My Black is beautiful!!
Imani Strong please delete the Persian blood and don’t be proud of the 2% raped part.
Greetings to all my African American brothers and sisters. I’m from Senegal, West Africa, and it always makes me very happy to see African Americans who embrace and celebrate their African roots. I advise all my African American brothers and sisters who have the financial means to go and visit the motherland; you won’t regret it. Please If you see stupid people claiming to be Africans and making negative comments below just consider them trolls who use the anonymity of the Internet to sow seeds of hatred, but they don’t represent the views of most Africans. I can tell you personally that if you visit Senegal, you will discover great historic sites, great food and culture, but most importantly very welcoming people. We should never forget that we’re the same people. Peace and Love to all my African American brothers and sisters, from your Senegalese brother who has a lot of respect and admiration for you.
Same! I always thought I was 50% Italian & 50% Polish but I did my test & found 25% German but I accept it & embrace it! I'm very proud. We should all be proud of where we came from. I knew a boy from Laos and the only thing he knew about his country is that it was "the most bombed country on earth" so I told him to learn more and be proud.
@@savifossi3632 this is coming from a somali. i will never NOT embrace the middle eastern procentage i have inside of me, when my people were starving and dying it was the arabs who saved us. you guys tried to sell us and colonize us. gambia is the only west african country that got my love, the rest of yall is trash and thats it
🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 there you are
I'm Nigerian but I am so happy that African -American people are finally trying to see their roots and where they come from.
Home which is in AFRICA is the place for us
Correction ... We have always wanted to know where we came from
Black Americans always wanted to know. Its the lack of resources and knowing where to look that halted the process. Closure and fulfill is granted once you can fully understand where you come from.
AnaLee Granny that’s not 💯 correct. Lemme tell u some facts. African slaves always had had an African attachment. That the reason why some Afr Am cultures are still very similar with Africans tribes( music passion for ex). Going back in Africa was one of the option they had to avoid slavery. What the white guys did was make them believe they were better slaves in America than masters in “poor and devastating “Africa . The next generation knew Africa through white media. Therefore, who wanna be identified with what was portrayed . In other words, they were telling them actually slavery saved you from that. And they believed it in some way and started focusing their fight in their new home or land, plus the new country was build essentially by them; so it was fair why not fighting to have ours shares. Being Africans was kinda insulting(I’m exaggerated a little bit but still )for Afr Am back then. When Afr Am fathers started traveling around the world after 1865, they rediscovered Africa and understood the importance to be unified and reconnected through pan-Africanism. From there, their battle have been very hard because of the mindset and the idea Afr Am had about the continent. The movement is now kinda successful because there’s a new way to fight the media monopoly through internet. And people are getting information by themselves and don’t just run with whatever. They have a better understanding of the continent and found a lot of stuff to be proud of theirs identities. And the idea that African sold Afr Am was created to seperate us while white people even installed colonialism to take advantage of Africa because they discovered our wealthy it is and didn’t want AA to be aware of that...there’s so much we can say, but I leave it at that
It's not FINALLY. We have never had the means/access to the information before recently. How would we? It's wasn't by choice.
Good for you African Americans! My Ancestors came from Texas!!! We are Aboriginal Black People in America!
Greetings to all my African American brothers and sisters. I’m from Senegal, West Africa, and it always makes me very happy to see African Americans who embrace and celebrate their African roots. I advise all my African American brothers and sisters who have the financial means to go and visit the motherland; you won’t regret it. Please If you see stupid people claiming to be Africans and making negative comments below just consider them trolls who use the anonymity of the Internet to sow seeds of hatred, but they don’t represent the views of most Africans. I can tell you personally that if you visit Senegal, you will discover great historic sites, great food and culture, but most importantly very welcoming people. We should never forget that we’re the same people. Peace and Love to all my African American brothers and sisters, from your Senegalese brother who has a lot of respect and admiration for you.
It's weird that my comment is only visible when I sign in. Is TH-cam censoring it? By the way, thanks for the heart!
@@champsqpuc7766 ❤️❤️ Lol, we see you my AfriKan brother. We love you and Thank you so much for the Love and welcome from the U.S
We love you too family!
Facts! I'm going home next year and I hope the experience is like or better than my experience to the Caribbean. We must get out of America to see how the World views and celebrates us and feel our connections to our roots.
Thank you kindly
The sisters cry, because they’ve found their great-grandmothers who were lost to them! I did the same.
Greetings Maam. Where do you trace your ancestry from if i may ask?
She looks Nigerian and especially Yoruba. Welcome sistah. We accept all of you.
Quad is Nigerian for sure! I don't why she needed the test. The lady with the beautiful gap really looks Sierra Leonean too
Tania Guerin
She probably took it because she didn't know where she was from in Africa.....
I can just look at her and tell that she's from SaLeone.
@@NenehB06 Do I look from Sierra Leone?
Lol fr fr she does look Sierra Leonean
Agreed !!
Just a quick correction - I'm Nigerian. Hausas are NOT business minded - its actually the Igbos. The Yoruba s are VERY educationally inclined. Hausas are nomads and herd cattles. Again, not everyone fits the bill but generally.
stunin2 yeah I'm Nigerian too when she said Hausa are the business people I was like "since when?!" 😂😂😂 it's always been us igbos
Uchenna Ofoegbu 😂😂😂
stunin2 facts
What about the Ijaw??? That’s my tribe
The hausas used to be, alot of commercial business in the early years, the groundnut pyramid, the gold souks many years ago etc. But most Nigerians like myself I am Edo are inherently Business minded.
I ordered my ancestry kit. lts on the way. I know I’m going to cry. Knowing my heritage & amazing tribes I come from. I cannot wait! I think I’m Nigerian. My personality is Nigerian!
How is everything going for you ? Accuracy ? Since I’m planning to do my own
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Shout out to all the African queens. Quad not surprise at all..she has the traits.. Now the Mende chic absolutely acuruate info. She has the gap and I am so proud to be a Mende chic as well...
Aminata Moses me tooooo!!!
Aminata Moses I just got my African Ancestory results back and I am Mende on my mother’s side. Since then I’ve been trying to find Mende’s here in Atlanta 😌
Arturo, they have a lot of Sierra Leoneans in atl. Always got events my aunt who is mende lived there but has moved back.
I have a natural gap tooth maybe I should get tested and see if I'm Mende
As an African from the continent, I really want to trace my DNA too. My tribe migrated a lot, always fleeing the most insecure coast to safest shelters, so 300 years my tribe was not stable. I really want to know who I am. My tribe is labeled Akan from the Ivory Coast, but I feel like my ancestry goes far beyond the Akan land.
Perhaps, you are Yoruba. We are spread over 4 countries of Nigeria predominantly), Benin, Ghana and Togo.
I watched this video again today, I loved it, I am from the Yoruba Tribe in Nigeria, I am currently in the UK. My Sister from Nigeria I am here to help if you are ready to come home. Shalom!
It's very rare to find African Americans from East and Central Africa, so Syleena is special!
to be honest I don't think people can possibly track where we are from I don't believe in that ancestry stuff
curious to know why you feel this way
Gladys Wangari it's really not rare you know Cameroon is considered as central Africa the Congo is considered central Africa Angola a lot of African Americans have that Heritage to it all depends on what part of the country you come from you'll find Central Africa around Louisiana a lot but East Africa is very rare Lonnie from the show the real took the DNA test and she found out she was from East Africa
Most slaves who were sold in the US came from West Africa, it was easier to transport them via ship from West Africa to America
Gladys Wangari the majority of from West African but you have a lot of central Africa to they even have a town in Louisiana named Angola name after the Angolan slaves who brought their to work they estimate 60% of African Americans are West African descent and the other 40% is from central Africa if you look online you'll see a lot of African Americans who have Congo ancestry even the lady that's doing the test ancestors came from Cameroon That central Africa
The test is on point. Being a 100% African, I can agree by looking at y'all. And Miss Quad, you're Yorobah girl😂😂. Kianna, no doubt your face says it all. The gap is common in that part and they said men married women just for that. Rashan, you better own it Chile, the Fulas are considered the most beautiful ppl next to Ethiopians on the Continent! Hey sistas!!😂😂😂
tilly johnson fulanis are beautiful no doubt been to west africa they look like somalif or the most part but comparing fulanis which is a tribe to ethiopian which is a country is kinda funny and yes ethiopians are beautiful too been to eastern africa as well
All Africans are equally beautiful sis don’t feed into one country having more beautiful people than another. That’s what society has pinned us to believe.
Tilly Johnson I’m a Fulani woman from Sierra Leone and I agree with your comment 👍🏽
Fulani girl from Guinea (not Guinea Bissau) ! And I agree
i was wondering that as well. theres dozens of tribes in ethiopia. but i love them, and rwandese
I cried my eyes out... As a Jamaican sista I can’t wait to know my roots and culture in Africa.
make sense why Quad is Nigerian full time, she has that hustle spirit she is freaking Nigerian, she even behave like a freaking Nigerian!!!!!
brwnish eyes + Who the hell you think you are to judge Africans like that. People like you are the reasons something is wrong with Americans in diaspora can't connect to their roots and people of the African continent. You are not helping with that myopic mindset.
brwnish eyes + If you care for nothing about Africans, You must really be upset with yourself. No fault of Africans. Majority of Africans are grandiose people and they know it and the whole world knows it. There is a very special group of Africans doing wonderful things right now as we speak for the motherland. I am not going to mention these crop of Africans for you. Make your own research. If you think you are better than them because you live in a diminishing country called America, you are deluding yourself. I feel sad for you because you seem to have no knowledge whatsoever about that continent and how are Africans more guilty of divisive tactics against you than African Americans. Could you elaborate more cause I am really balled over with the premise of that assertion?
brwnish eyes + What a bunch of malarkey.........I can't have a decent discourse with someone like you who is incredibly intellectually dishonest and deluded with an overbearing self-worth. The most educated people in the West and the world over are Nigerians according to a FORBES MAGAZINE RESEARCH CARRIED OUT A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO. More educated than the Asians, Jews, Caucasians, Afro-Caribbeans African Americans AND FROM THE LAST TIME I CHECKED NIGERIANS ARE AFRICANS. What about the Nigerian entertainment industries that are spreading like wildfire all over the globe. They invented their own music genre called afrobeats with a film industry dubbed Nollywood that your own Hollywood is trailing right now. They are also exporting their culture and fashion which is receiving world attention and acclaim. Africans don't have time for someone like you who supposedly have been to school but the school is not coming out them. I have to say goodbye at this juncture because I will never learn something of worth from you. The scales are heavy under your eyes and it's a shame that you don't even know so. Goodbye superior being. I hope that you have a wonderful life with that kind of disposition.
@brwnish eyes Poor thing, damn!.......Israelite bs, you are African you better wear that with a badge!
brwnish eyes Your Black Israelite mantra is rubbish. Go get tested and find out that you’ll have 0-2% Jewish ancestry. (If you were all actually real Israelites, the number would be much higher.) You’ll probably have none, but you should go get tested, unless of course you’re scared!! 🤣🤣😂😂 and by the way, I recommend KKK nut jobs to go and get tested too... since they think their blood is so ‘pure’,.. the more of them we can prove wrong, the better too!!
Am telling You she looked exactly like the fulanis, got the Fulani complexion
I just knew they were going to say Nigeria for Quad. I know my people when I see them.
Yes love this episode. I took the test and got Yoruba in Nigeria.
Krissi M I did too and got the same
Where you ladies satisfied or should I believe the 1500 complaints ....idk if I should do it or if it's truly a scam ?
Welcome sister, we yorubas are predominantly on the west coast of Nigeria,but also extend into Benin republic. Hope get to listen to your language one day.
@@takeshiadavis have look youtube or online and see what the tests entail and how significant it isn't and how very little it says about where your origins lie.
My people.
the spelled Guinea Bissau wrong in the first reading. Syleena's people are also bordering Congo, and we know how lit Congolese music is. It also makes sense with her creole heritage as people from the Congo were taken to New Orleans.
Congo is the ISH when it comes to music & dance in Africa. No one does it better than them!
There's even a place in New orleans called "Congo Square" where enslaved Africans gathered on sundays to play music & dance. Many of them had their origins in the Congo, Angola, Cameroon, Gabon & Equatorial Guinea (all countries where the majority speak bantu-languages)
Gary JB Mpiana - Ndombolo
Werrason - Solola Bien
Papa Wemba - Proclamation
Koffi Olomide - Loi
Well said. I'm from Congo.
Oh wow..
This was Soo good! And Selena looks Soo pretty! My test revealed 70% Nigerian, Soo dope..
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I knew that the last woman was from Central Africa something like Congo. Because of her floffy body features and skin 🇨🇬🇨🇩✨🎉
You can't always tell my sister did a test 99% African.It showed like 8 countries we are Haitian most likely many tribes also.I am small framed all over.My sister is medium frame.
I can't wait to do this test especially right now with all that is going on in this country!So excited to learn more💗
Bantuuuu🇨🇫🇨🇩🇨🇬🇨🇲🇦🇴
She’s from the country called Central African Republic Not Congo
Somali girl from East Africa here watching the ladies find out where they're from made me cry ❤️🫂 big hug to my African American brothers and sisters please visit Africa and connect with your roots
It is important for every African American to look at their ancestory no matter how it might turn out.I am of Congolese decent and I want all of my Afrikan-American Brothas and Sistas to know their history.
Am Kenyan born and raised,and I've got a gap in my teeth, the gap is universal in my opinion esp amongs black people
Ray ray the way you see African people with gaps in their teeth how many white people have you ever seen with a gap in their teeth or Asian people
Not many but I have seen a few, I love my gap wouldn't trade it for nothing
Madonna had a gap.. Keisha Cole had a gap..
dee fra and Keyshia Cole has a black mother to
have you looked at british ie anglosaxon people before? or americans pre braces? gaps are universal, however, the celebration of them as a beauty trait mostly African.
I already said she is a Yoruba Nigerian woman. Welcome home sister ❤️😘
Quad fit Nigeria. . Nigerian woman are extremely driven very sapiosexual the hausa are all about making that money. I'm from Cameroon living the USA. And pursue my Dnp ( doctor in nurse practice in psych / geriatric ) I love me Quad she is such beautiful human being. Thanks sister circle. May God bless u all gorgeous
She's pretty gap and all😘❤
You know back in the day many women had gaps and it was thought to be attractive.My Mother and my Godmother had gaps.
Kim Wright you're right and my older sister, first cousin, and Auntie have a gap. All three are beautiful women.🙂
I think my family on my moms side maybe from her tribe all the women on that side have gaps
I have the gap 🤗
Kim Wright
Omg in my culture women with gaps received more cows/ dowery
So beautiful to see them know thier roots :)
Gorgeous African ladies. 🇳🇬representing
topsy
They're American
You call yourself yudah, but say they’re American?? Oh the irony.
hotties
Are u upset
Yudah El my dear, you can argue with your ancestors
topsy Udombang
Argue with my ancestors for what??? My ancestors are also American Negros, thank u
My father is Ibibio Nigerian and my Mother is St. Lucian(The Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
When I took the AA test they found my ancestors results in Guinea Bissua which is the fula people and the Mende and Theme in Sierra Leone 😊😊😊
RҨδξ GҨLD thats awesome , you’re a sierra leonean
A I yess!!!!
guiné bissau
I want to take yhe test, but fear they will keep my information
I'm African from Guine-Bissau ,mandinga /Balanta
It's beautiful to see the restoration of ancestry here. To be able to link back to their ancestral tribe is so special.
I am Somalian and even though Rashan is darker than me, she could COMPLETELY pass for a North African. She looks like an even blend of Arab and Central African...like someone from Libya or Mali. It's not always about complexion, she has the phenotype.'
@AnnieA ?
All west Africans came for the east. Yoruba and Luhya of Kenya are same people according to 1000 genome project. All the above carry E1b1a y dna a brother to Somoli E1b1b.
Most Somoli carry l3 mtdna. SAME IS true for Amhara(habesha). Yet Habesha l3 , l5 came from Luhya bantu according 1000 genome project.
Bantu carry all the mtdna of Africa lo to l7 . L3 mutated and created all non African y dna and it is the youngest of the 7 mtdna(maternal).
I knew that lady with the gap tooth was from my tribe the mande people, i get the vibe from her, and when the lady say Guinea biseau i knew she was mande
It's amazing the traits of our lineage stuck with us through the generations
I took another test, and what she said at the end is so true. I am 91% Sub Saharan African and 9% White. However it was discovered that my great grandmother was 100% West African meaning that she probably came over post civil war. However my father's DNA was part of the trans Atlantic trade through the Bahamas. The 9% is from an Ancestor that is my 5 time great grand parent who was 100% White who lived between 1700 and 1760. My MT DNA is L2af1 and my PT is E-P252
Going back to our MotherLand AFRICA is honoring our ancestors. Africa belongs to BLACK. I love Africa and proud to be Black
I mean no harm but just wanna add: biblically, God told Abraham i think, to depart from his father's land and go to a new land of milk and honey. My point is that you don't really have to go back to the land of your ancestors if it's not going to serve you any purpose unless you think it will. I used the bible as a historical framework, so hope that didn't offend if you are not into the Christian religion.
@@rachelzol6520 Christianity is a false religion made by a Roman emperor named Constantine. The Romans destroyed ancient Jerusalem in 70 AD, so when Jesus told the israelities to flee into the mountains wha mountains you think he was talking about? Africa and that’s where they are till this day.
Quad is Nigerian!!! I knew it!
Sublime Existence I've always thought she looked Nigerian!
Pharoah Monk She looks and is as extra as Nigerian women lol
Sublime Existence .... duh
@@chimcham6762 yeah, they are extra asf....
she looks like it
Soo Good...Congratulations Ladies for knowing your Maternal genery..
Woow this is so touching much love from Africa hope you feel that for us to
I took this company's test as well and they said I share maternal DNA with both the Yoruba and Fulani people living in Nigeria. I think more people should take the test for sure. The more samples they collect the more accurate they'll be. :)
point of correction, Hausas R not the business people, they nomads/warriors and farmers, its the Igbos from the south that r the business people.
Y'all crazy. Just stop.
@Professor What big time merchants.
Correction hausa people are not nomads and the richest man in Nigeria is hausa
Emilian Chux igbos are not south they are east
@Emilian Chux, if you're Nigerian and you didn't know that Hausas were business people then you need Nigerian history classes. Yes Hausas were business people that's why the Hausa language is spoken in most west African countries as a trade language/lingua franca. Hausas travelled the whole of west Africa trading with neighbouring empires before the arrival of the Europeans.
Man, I done said this about 20 times while watching this, but DAMN Quad fine!
That was amazing. I want to try the test!!!
you are 80% ivorycoast/ghana 10 percent french 10% irish we are proud of you your people were strong
It's bullshit
I 💘 this episode
Really loved the show!!! And the results were really impressive and physically accidentally accurate. Now my question is, against whose African samples have they made the matches of the african american people?
I loved this. I hate that we were stripped from our culture.
Hmmm, the Igbos are the business oriented people in Nigeria. They probably own 50% or more of all businesses in Nigeria
This is SUPERB! Very emotional indeed but also informative and presented in a sensitive and considerate manner.
United States of America , should pay for the test.
How bout for the Irish? Let's figure out where all the native Americans are from. Let's get real. You can go back. There are many racists that would put a ship in the water for you. I do not begrudge you your joy in finding your past but don't charge me and mine for it. I am no richer than the project families. I am on social security. You have great lives, lovely clothes opportunities you would never have in Africa no matter what your status or desirability.
Absolutely!
@@ellenl.5581 The Germans still pay damages to the Jews and Israel for the Jewish holocaust. I mean, the costs of one test isn't comparable to what a Jew gets, so why shouldn't African Americans get something back that was stolen from them because of the African holocaust? FYI, you aren't charged, the government is.
Hammer Candy The Irish are from Ireland..
Hammer Candy how about the Irish?You live in a white privileged heaven.And if you are living as people in the projects,you are two time looser.No way you should be poor living in a white privileged society..What boat took away The Irish as slaves,if anything you were “indentured slaves” paying off a debt.Your humanity was never taken from to work as free labor servant slaves of possession.
This was so beautiful to watch. Love all the melanin!!
Thank you for the clear information and for showing me who you really are. Best wishes for the future and also the present! Beautiful people. Cheers
This is absolutely beautiful 😍😍 I’ve always wished I had this info, it’s amazing that it’s available!
I'm not average.according to the lady with African Ancestry
I'm 91% African.
So when will you visit Africa
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I just recieved my test back and I was excited to find out I was 51% Nigerian ❤️😍❤️❤️❤️
So you didn't know one of your parents is Nigerian?
Your african ancestry is 51% compatible with the sample they have from Nigeria. But you are not 51% Nigerian. Read the fine print.
Yes I have been told my father was Cuban all my life my mother is Mexican
@@MaricellaAlaniz afro carribean with genes compatible with the sample dna they collected in Nigeria. If I take the test, I could be more than 60% Ghanaian. Maybe it's best to read up on how these tests work, and basic, mandelion genetics. Knowing where your grandparents are from tells you more about your ancestry than these tests. May ask how much you paid for it? I've heard it is quite expensive.
Your Nigerian 😒?
Yeah sure the gap teeth we call it open teeth and the folds in the neck we call it cut neck, those are just few but when you have those too, then you are a beauty. Welcome me salone sister. Every girl wish to have open teeth or cut neck in SierraLeone.
A M I E D O R A welcome our Salone sister 🇸🇱 and mother #MamaSalone #SweetSalone
Every where in west Africa we like that gap and those lines on the neck.
To all my Nigerian brothers and sisters who are critiquing the show and its inaccuracies, why don't you do an ancestry show for the Blacks in the diaspora to present accurate information instead of coming to the Black diaspora and criticizing the people while benefiting from the blood, sweat and tears of these same people your ancestors sold.
NyleRiver You said everything I would have said to his/her ignorant arse. Well done.
Europeans usually bought enslaved people who were captured in endemic warfare between African states. Some Africans had made a business out of capturing Africans from neighboring ethnic groups or war captives and selling them. A reminder of this practice is documented in the Slave Trade Debates of England in the early 19th century: "All the old writers... concur in stating not only that wars are entered into for the sole purpose of making slaves, but that they are fomented by Europeans, with a view to that object."
Europeans fomented this economic trade. But, europeans didn't kidnapped anyone.
This catastrophe is to ''blame'' on old europeans and old african leaders, that preferred ''money'' over the life of human beings. As it does today, btw.
Tosin Ojo, yeah, but don't blame it on your peers. Blame it on capitalism.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Valentino Gambino
As an ijaw royalty i can tell you that Slavery in Nigeria or south south Nigeria wasn't the same as Europe or Arab I'll tell you why there were no castrations, no forced labour, a slave could be king example King Jaja of Opobo was an igbo man enslaved and bought by an Ijaw King he became King, in Europe Americas and Arabia all these were impossible.
2. That Africa/ijaws made slaves was a lie we only bought those who had been captured and we're going to be shipped, but some Ijaws were slaves? Yes, because the Europeans had an agreement that we give them criminals instead of drowning them (death sentence) we hand them to the Europeans and the pressure kept mounting for slaves.
3. Why didn't you fight back? A small ethnic group with villages in clusters through Nigeria Gabon and Sierra Leone, war canoes at the time were not suffisticated enough to defeat the colonialists so we had to strick a deal with them, they were to recognise our king, not attack us etc on our part not attack them (don't laugh we had war canoes and cannons although we would have lost but they would have lost a ship and some men atleast) then for trade you give us the guys you want to sentence to death and you allow us passage to transport slaves (at the time we didn't know how slaves were treated in Europe or Americas) like I told you above how we treated them.
4 why did you guys accept easily?
Tosin Ojo
4. Why accept so easily? If we rejected we had to be ready for war + they weren't the first whites/Europeans we had seen the portuguese did business and were nice to us atleast.
Benin kingdom was razed to the ground and their great walls demolished, 500 villages burnt, their palace, ceremonial masks and places of worship etc looted and plundered, women and foodstuffs taken meanwhile the ijaws or kalabari in particular had been moving closer to the Atlantic to avoid conflict with other tribes
So the british had destroyed Benin city after the Oba refused to sign a treaty to make benin a British protectorate the british sent their royal navy and ordered that the Oba be beheaded or hung upon capture this happened to our ijaws brothers (3000 known works of art excluding priceless well carved palace doors were shared round the world till today uk and us and europe makes money off those art pieces eg New york has the Queen Idia mask, uk has too many and they have refused to return it infact we were told to pay to lease it for a period of time so that Nigerians can see them) and my people were known for avoiding conflicts as much as possible and had strong relationship with the Portuguese before the British came.
Finally before the disrespectful British the Portuguese had taken the son of the Oba (ruler/king) of Benin Oba Esigie to Portugal to better diplomatic ties after the King refused them access deeper into Africa and he had a nice time came back with many gifts so most people assumed the slaves would atleast get 1/10th of what the prince got but unfortunately it was not so.
Till today the British have refused to give us access to documents they have both ours and the ones written by the their mecenaries so we can know more.
I just wish you guys would not generalise the most racially, cuturally, ethnically, linguistically diverse continent in the world. I pray you look at each group individually and look for that group who sold their people and stop being ignorant no one ever says Asians are poor even though their rural areas still are and only 25 years ago China's cities were underdeveloped and really poor... Europeans are barbaric even though our minds picture of barbarians are white cave people... but always Africans are underdeveloped or sold themselves etc Europeans enslaved Europeans Arabs enslaved Arabs.
in Africa very very few groups enslaved themselves the only group in Nigeria that I know did that was the Igbo but even they a caste system and when slavery became profitable things went out of hand and people added innocent people or disadvantaged people, unnecessary wars took place, people used religion to steal people and claimed the gods took them away because they were guilty of something and the igbos are business minded people. But ignorantly people say Nigeria or southern Nigeria when the British came they found out they couldn't control us because we didn't have one God or one king unlike the Fulanis and hausa's they didn't know which group was aligned with which or against which so they needed time to figure it out. So there plan was be friends with the scanty water people since they have too few people and control the waterways cause the Igbos who had population and controlled nothing we needed at the time
I paid $667.00 for my son to be DNA tested, so I got the results for both X and Y. Yes, alot of surprisingly groups, but my adult children are so together, they're not interested in even glancing at the pages. 🤗
I did ancestry dna but now I wanna do this!
Am am a fulani too welcome to the African family as a general as we are all black African no matter of your nationality we are just uniting as a race ✊✊✊
I saw beautiful strong black women and I was like done! I'm subscribing! ❤️💪. Ethnically Congolese. 🇨🇩Born and raised in SA. Power to you all😘
Amazing!!! Sierra Leone is such a small nation today and I'm glad to see that a lot of people in the US descend from there also
I’m 100% indian and I absolutely loved this video. I hope every African American person is able to trace their lineage at some point in their life just to get some knowledge about their roots. It’s important.
So your from India?
In Nigeria from my tribe the Urhobo's we also cherish the open teeth, and in my family it's a family thing that we all have both Male and Female..
Wow. Watching this from Ireland. It's so cool seeing the reactions of these women rediscovering what was once tried to be denied. Never knew 65% of African American men could trace their paternal line to Europe. It makes sense when one reads on the history of transatlantic slavery and listens to the numerous slave narratives wrote. Was a horrible institution. From them hardships came a strong a very strong and soulful people. As an irishman I take inspiration of how African Americans can rise and conquer from such a trying place. Can keep doing ye
Paidi O'Tailliuir DO YOU KNOW JIM NDURUCHI
@@irenedavo3768 no I've never heard of him to be honest
It's actually 35%. 65% of the time it comes back African, is what she said.
This is so important. My mother is Afro-Cuban and my father is from Spain. I can trace my Spaniard roots, but that Afro part really gets me. I practice Ifa and pride myself in my hat small part of my ancestry
If you practice ifa, there's a 85% chance you have your african roots in Nigeria
el cielo es siempre azul
Sis, Ifa is Indigenous to the Yoruba of Nigeria, Benin, Ghana and Togo.
I love this! For the first time, better pictures, not degrading ones are shared for comparisons. Thx Sis
I feel like she was using their personal characteristics to situate them conveniently. Quads last test said different.
Black Culture Bridge. DO YOU KNOW JIM NDURUCHI
All these women a gorgeous! Beautiful African sisters.
Most blacks in America are from 5 specific countries
Ghana
Nigeria
Part of Cameroon
Sierra Leone
Gambia
These are uk major countries and they have their major castles in Ghana about 10+ for shipments
West Africa majority muslims country I am really interested in African history Sorry I if pushed my religion in it bc I am Muslim i would like know my people
Pxer didn’t read through , sorry ! Lol
U Saddique it’s not factor here . After post colonialism Muslim spread across . The real and indigenous people are not Muslims .
Especially countries of uk are not predominantly Muslims but traditional and Christianity dominate there .
Nigeria
Ghana
Gambia
Sierra Leone
@@claimattacol8525 Okay thank you have a nice day
Guine-Bissau here
I cried watching this...we need to know where we come from and this should be in our reparations package.
This test should be federally funded and free to all African Americans.
almhtarif 1 im Dominican and we’re part of the African diaspora too. I’m Afro Latino so tf you tryna say
Native Americans were enslaved and taken to other countries 80 years before Africans were brought to the US.
@almhtarif 1 Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica, the Azores, Spain, and Tangier
That would be zero people. No such thing as African American. Just American.
@@jpturner9452 lol... After robbing them of their true ansestory knowledge, you wanna rob them of their culture and heritage... Damn!
I tested 100% Mende of Sierra Leone on maternal side from Africa Ancestry also. We are FAMILY and I am glad to listen to this video on Sept. 17, 2021.
I'm Wolof from KMT to Gambia. But I knew this I'm so glad for you all having this info
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Wollof are also in Senegal majority we have a connection with themy in the eastern Africa
Kmt is egypt and that is not black it's white and Brown lands Caucasian not negroid.
North Africa is anti black in Truth.
I love this ladies ,, do encourage yourselves to invest in Africa if you guys really love your land i know you do
Africa made enough money off of selling us to the Europeans🗣💯.
Why does this make me so emotional, even when I am West Afrikan?
Look, I am from Nigeria and I knew, I just knew Quad's ancestry would be in Nigeria! She certainly looks Yoruba and displays their characteristics to a T!
I'm North African and recently my sister took a dna test and we are part from Sierra Leone, and it makes so much sense bc my mom has a gap in her teeth too
That's from the trans-saharan slave trade
This is always soooo interesting and lovely, to have and know your real 'people!' Congrats, ladies!
All of these ladies are absolutely beautiful , Articulate and smart! I love the class!
I'm Nigerian and that girl looks just like one of our beautiful ladies
Only just seen this, and boy the "man tears" are flowing 👊🏾🇯🇲🇬🇧
Being an African and have traveled to many African countries, the test was spot on and I could guess each of their ancestral heritage before the results.
How can you tell? What do you look for?
Maime Ricks
I’m African American and it kind of makes me jealous that you have this ability to look at their faces, these Black American faces, and tell where they are from and I cannot. Other African commenters have said the same thing as you.
ManPursueExcellence awwww... So Sorry my dear, it is only because of me traveling extensively around Africa. There are some Africans who cannot detect that either. Don't worry , I can teach you. Lol
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Welll, to make it balanced. I can easily tell Ethiopians or Eritreans apart from other groups. Sometimes I can recognize Nigerians. Some folks from Ghana kinda look like American blacks, at least the lighter ones. I’ve come across more of the first two groups, here in the States.
Gary , I can sometimes place them between several tribes because once you see the person picture or see them in person it makes it a little easier. I often told my coworkers the same but most did not want to do their ancestry DNA to make sure what I am saying is accurate.
I am from Cameroon and my ancestors came from Egypt .
I really enjoy the programme sister circle keep it up
Why now you agree to be Africans, when you never wanted to be ? We Africans are very much happy to have you all coming back to your foundation.We are all in agreement that you come back home, but no violence we do not want guns in homes.
I am half Mende and I have a small gap between my two front teeth!!!
Blessing Sambi Yass my sister !!
A tribe in Ghana called the Gojas are believed to have migrated from mende in Senegal
This make my cry, so beautiful watching them
This is emotional to watch to find where you belong is deep