I am a kikuyu Kenyan light skinned and sometimes I wonder we’re my light skin comes from is that a stupid question 😂 5 weeks later I got my results and it said 10% Middle Eastern. 90% East African. 5% Native American SHOOK
My guess is 35% of Kikiyu will show recent 2-25% Asian and European. 4% Nilotic. 40% other non Congo. Kenya Luo 60% Nilo-Sudanic, 30% East Bantu, 10% Saharan from ancient Egyptian. More latter.
Hey Yvonne it looks like Ancestry updated their database...the results have changed dramatically. By the way, you and I have been matched as distant cousins by both ancestry and gedmatch. If you haven't already figured out how to use the different calculators: the Puntdnal k10 ancient is the best for Kikuyu. I hope you don't mind but I've already checked your results and they are pretty consistent with most other Kikuyu. According to that calculator you've been identified as roughly 96% Kikuyu and the rest some other middle eastern ethnicity or what's really interesting is that you've also been pegged as 61% Maasai and 39% North Eastern Bantu. It kinda makes sense seeing that Maasai and Kikuyu culture is intertwined. For instance we use "Ngai" instead of the more Bantu mulungu or mungu. Our age-set system was derived from the Maasai. Etc... I should add that North Eastern Bantu is similar to Luhya, Kisii or a typical Bantu individual who lives in any one of the East African countries (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda).
Girl I knew there was something I liked about you, we’re family! That’s amazing I don’t mind at all that you looked up my information I’ll do the same and yup you’re right about the Ancestry results changing drastically I’ve been meaning to do an update. Its super interesting. Thank you so much for sharing! Also, I’d love to stay in contact my name is Yvonne.Mugure on IG please send me a DM when you’re available!
Ikr! We're family for sure! My gedmatch kit number is A462173 if you want to check out my results. Alas! I'm not on IG (yet). Can't wait for your video update. I'm considering doing one as well that will address my gedmatch results.
There are so many cultures to just be lumped in with over 10 countries. That whole southeastern Bantu thing was ridiculous. Extending all the way from Uganda to South Africa? Ridiculous. They just don’t have enough data to get actual East African results. I’ve noticed this. We always get lumped with the whole of Africa, because of the lack of knowledge on who we actually are.
You should be happy that you have Bantus, all of us has Bantu in us from the Americas it means that you are Hebrew Bantus which is connected to the bible , I guess you guys are shocked to know that one!!!
I think they could get more specific results if they had more samples to compare against, which just means more African people would need to get the test/provide Ancestry DNA with their DNA.
Okay for me this whole thing can get quite confusing... my DNA results say I'm 60% African but within that number I'm 36% Nigerian but what it didn't say is that I'm Hausa Fulani from Northern Nigeria... but my mother is L3e1e haplogroup and my father is E-M4254 haplogroup which both are found in high concentrations in East Africa.
You are most likely Kikuyu, many Kikuyu have cushitic dna from Arabia. The language is Bantu, but had lots of migration from Arabia. Gikuyu and Mumbi would most have likely come from the middle east and his daughters married by the Bantu who moved from West Africa.
"You are most likely Kikuyu, many Kikuyu have cushitic dna from Arabia. The language is Bantu, but had lots of migration from Arabia. Gikuyu and Mumbi would most have likely come from the middle east and his daughters married by the Bantu who moved from West Africa."...guesswork. do you have evidence for your claim of bantu migration from west Africa? it is all what you have been taught from the greenberg hypothesis of bantu expansion from west Africa the border between nigeria and cameroon. The cushitics are e3b1b and e1b1b which are horn of African/african in origin. They do have some genes from arabia through admixture, but they are not from arabia and their roots can be traced back to africa and not to the arabian pensula. the arabia genes are arab genes and not cushite genes. your story of Gikuyu and mumbi migrations from the middle east is fake. The kikuyu, just like the cushites get their arabian genes through admixture with the arabs considering their are arabs in Kenya and the swahili coast covered coast Kenya. since kikuyu are bantu then gikuyu and mumbi were bantu and the names mumbi and gikuyu are bantu in linguistic origin. stop making up things out of stupidity. are you begging for the kikuyu to be arabs? stop your nonsense. please do not show your stupidity.
Your results ain’t too uncommon for an East African many East Africans especially ones from or near the Horn have North African or middle eastern admixture
Polishinggold Yes so I’m sure the videos you’ve seen I’ve noticed how nearly all East Africans Kenyans,Ethiopians,Somalians,Eritreans,etc have North African or middle eastern in there results
as a Somali I totally agree. It's so annoying when everyone (non-horn Africans) try to explain what we are to us especially when the things they claim ain't true. it's like they forgot the everyone came from east Africa and not the other way round.
Your results aren’t weird at all trust me. In the coast Kenya there was a lot of trading with middle eastern/central asian countries and many moved to Kenya, Tanzania and have lived there and intermarried with locals. Kenya has many ethnic groups/tribes and we are more mixed in with all the tribes than we think that’s why your results are so diverse. I think I was more shocked you had North African and had so little central Africa
Exactly totally agree with you, i've been saying that many Sub-Saharan countries been having admixtures as well...for some reason a lot of people don't wanna buy it...don't know why. They pretend that Sub-Saharan African can't have admixtures...but yes I'm 100% down with u on that one
Allison N No they aren’t. East Africa is basically known as giving “birth” to the whole world. Most civilization started there. I’m really getting bored and annoyed by these “mixed” B.S. about East Africans. Just because we have features that aren’t deemed “African” doesn’t make us less African than any other country. We are indigenous, and a DNA test that barely has East African samples cannot really tell me where I am from when I can can count all the way back to 20-30 ancestors before me.
Allison N looool, “sleep”. What are you, a child? Believe wtf you want. Did I come here to change your opinion, no tf I didn’t. I came here to correct your dumbass. Also, it really shows how insecure you are babes. Are you mad that we have the features we wanted without intermingling with other races? Sad life that Africans have nowadays. Self hate isn’t good. Change your mentality and love yourself for who you are.
Most Kenyan East African Bantus (Including Kikuyu, Meru, Kamba, Taita) have 4% to 37% Somali, Borana/Oromo, Ethiopian or middle Eastern DNA. Some Nilotic groups like Maasai; Samburu also have some Cushitic DNA.......And? Somalis and Ethiopians too have some percentage of Bantu DNA in them. Kenyan Luos have from 5% Bantu in them hahaha. Basically, we all have a piece of each other. I am a Meru and seeing a Meru with some Cushitic features (like one of my daughters or family members) has never been a surprise because we border Somalis to the North and Boranas to the west.
Kenyan Bantus originated from west Africa,especially Congo/Cameroon.Arabs intermarried with Bantus who were at the east African coast,so that's where the middleast come from.
Mahad Mohammed that would have been the case if she was from the coastal region which she wasn't also the Arabs didn't pass through Kenya to reach Uganda because there tribes in the interior were too hostile opting to go through Tanzania so there shouldn't be any Arab mixture in her
@@MagicMike-n6u It does not require any rocket science my brother. Bantus from Congo to Kenya to South Africa share a lot. The languages share alot of words. Do you know how far it is from South Africa to Kenya? Do you think the cultures languages are shared out of nothing? They must have been at one place at some time.
@@deniskanja1952 it was the baths specifically the buganda and coastal tribes of Kenya and Tanzania who traded with the Arabs. The batus were long distance traders. So the Arabs didn't go to the interior of East Africa
@@Anonymous-km6me you need to pick up a book and read the Arabs and their mixed breed children traveled as far as Uganda, and even converted the Baganda king and his people to Islam
Damn you look south african. When i first saw you i thought you south african. I swear if you come to South Africa people gonna speak with you in xhosa or zulu coz damn you look like an south african woman.
Peace very interesting the mid east indeed looked like you at one time . L3 M and N mtdna had a very strong presence in the mid east . Thanks for sharing beautiful sister .
Mahogany Belle yess..I got my update and I’m pissed..drastic changes..I went from 4% Nigerian to 30% Nigerian..What kind of mess is that..high percentage difference
TiYah Israel I know, right? Mine changed a lot too so not sure what’s going on. I can understand narrowing it down to target a specific area but when 1 or more ethnicities completely vanish....I don’t get it.
thats weird. Your name suggests youve has relatives in central kenya but coast? Oral literature says we came from kongo.Kenya being the cradle of mankind one can discover the connection to other areas.What i notice too is that the kikuyu of central kenya have similar names with the japanese,there is alot we dont know
Because the Japanese are descended from a group called the Bamasaaba negroes. They are a native and indeginous among the most indeginous communities in Africa. Are prevalent in the mountainous areas such as Mt elgon in Uganda and Mt Rwenzori in south western uganda the former are now called the bagisu and the latter the bakonzo.
@Kalu V there are several kikuyu history versions so you're just talking about the one who's convenient for you. The truth is that Kikuyus have several origins as they are mixed. Their principal component is Bantu, the Bantu came from Cameroon/Congo as archeology, linguisy, genetics tells. Their second component is from the cushite who assimilated into the upcoming Bantu society, there you have your relativeness to Ethiopia, Msiri... Their third component is nilotic who also assimilated into the Bantu society and originally came from Suda. Then some pygmy affinities through the Bantu ancestors who mixed a bit with them as they traveled through the Congo forest to East Africa
The PCEA church in Kenya have an unpublished document that states that there are two groups in the ancestry of Kikuyus - Gikuyu Karinga (pure Kikuyus, presumed to have been Egyptians) and Gikuyu Kabiru (the Hebrew Kikuyus). You probably have some Gikuyu Kabiru blood in you. That could explain both the North African blood and Middle Eastern blood. Before 1856, before the start of the construction of the Suez Canal, Africa could be reached overland from Asia. So even if you are neither Gikuyu Karinga nor Gikuyu Kabiru, you may have the blood of travellers who decided to settle on the slopes of Mount Kenya - after all, it's one of the most fertile places on planet Earth.
@alex B. There is a writer on the web by the name Emmanuel Kariuki who attempts to explain the migration of the Kikuyu to Kenya. Some of the pictures he has on his site on Hub Page appear to give compelling reasons to believe that the style of Kikuyu clothing originated in Egypt. In addition, if you take time to read through the comments, you may come across some in which there are Kikuyus who, within their clans, appear to be familiar with hieroglyphics normally associated with Egyptians. So it is possible that some Kikuyus have their origins in Egypt. Here are some links to his work on Hub Pages. hubpages.com/@emmanuelkariuki hubpages.com/education/Kikuyu-People-Secrets-of-the-migration-from-Egypt-to-Mount-Kenya hubpages.com/education/Akhenaten-and-the-Kikuyu
Girl if I didn't know I'd assume you were Igbo, Kongo, Hausa, and S. African. Very beautiful though. To add, many Asians, N. Americans come up with your results or area. And the middle East is on the same continental plate as Africa known as NE Africa. Nice vid😁
me too but i think there is a DNA puzzle theyve not found,they have alot of data bank from west africa cos of slavery but they should do more on east we are very different looking people.
Bantu is a group of peoples in Eastern and Southern Africa. Most peoples from these regions are Bantu. The common tie between Bantu is the word for person ... Muntu, Mudu, Mundu, etc.. Cameroon is where it is said Bantu's came from... so ... just in case you were not aware of the history of the Bantu people's...
@@user-pi3fe2yk1b because they have nilotic and cushite ancestry who share some similar features with the khoisan(forehead,eyes, light skin from the cushite)the people southern Bantu mixed with
Sweet. I gotta post a vid. Ancestry updated my results. But yes East Africans have measurable if not significant North African ancestry, perhaps from 3-400 years ago so overtime peoples forgot and assumed they we're 100% black due to no admixture in recent 'MEMORY.'However it can take 1000's of years for mutations to occur so those genes aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Btw genetics don't necessarily stop at borders. Being Kenyan is a national thing. I'm not 100% pure American. That's simply my nationality not my race.
I Know this weird, and out of topic, But i went to your You tube page, to check if you posted your DNA results and then i found that you liked Ben Shapiro and Prager U videos DOPE !!!!!!
Cameroon don’t have Bantu language Bantu language is Kiswahili Zulu xhosa vende kirundi kinywarwanda Lingala hehe kikuyu Tswana Sesotho Tsonga swati Shona luganda Shona Ndebele and much more
@@fcafricanunion9915 get your facts straight, Cameroon has many Bantu languages(Bulu, Douala, Sawa, Bamoun..) and the most diverse and divergent ones are found there indicating this place as the homeland. Cameroon is both in West and Central Africa, these are relative terms, Cameroon is literally inbetween Nigeria and Congo
The idea that DNA results would shock someone is itself surprising considering that African borders are recent. Why don't you guys read a book? How on earth can you believe DNA would belong to a country when people move all the time? My grandfathers alone live in 3 different countries, so why would I be surprised?
Hey...am not surprised by your results, West Africa ,central Africa, East African is all bantu region...people from kenya came from Cameroon ,congo and Nigeria then migrated Eastwards.....the Arab and jewish part is not surprising either since we have arabs and semites in East Africa.....your case is nothing new...not surprised at all
@loisendiritu6575 west african tribes are bantu.....east african bantu came from Nigeria and Cameron...example of tribes beti..bassa ...bakundu...maka and doula.
Really no reason to be surprised by the results. Your Southern Bantu/Congo/Cameroon/Benin/Nigeria results are 100% unsurprising. You are BANTU after all! We are talking DNA lineage that goes back millennia. Secondly the Middle East results are just as unsurprising. Many Kenya Bantu especially from around Mt Kenya have had fairly recent interactions with Hamitic/Cushitic people who ultimately have large portions of Middle East DNA.
You are very pretty. Listen to the elders because they are right, Bantus came from North Africa in the area of Israel and then they went into Egypt and continued expanding, Central, South and even a few went West. God has confirmed to me that some African groups were Hebrews who went into the Trans-Atlantic slavery, but not all the captured tribes were Israelites. I have no doubt the Bantus are one of those groups who came from Israel, but there are others in Africa. Israel was considered part of Africa in Biblical times and shares the same tectonic plate. Your elders are not lying about their origin.
I’m scared to take the test 💯cuz I was born in Tanzania 🇹🇿 but my parents r completely different they claim they 💯 Burundians🇧🇮 but my mom is mixed wit something I can tell n I look jus like my mom lol she’s beautiful ❤️N Yvonne is my niece name aweee-I’m just scared to see the reality
I completely feel you about being scared. I was a little apprehensive but trust me I'm so glad I did! I'm sure you'll be surprised by your results too. I've learned through this test and the feedback of so many here on TH-cam that our ancestors traveled sooo much so you can honestly be from a lot pf places or just a few!
Then you will have a Ueroasia. Koz Burund and Rwanda many originated from Cushitic lands. And in the cushitics land is nearby Kenya. Then simply u will be an East African with a high percentage that is Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, then you will have west asia or south asia koz of a mixture of cushite people, then u gonna have with a Europe staff that is either Itally or any other. Then we gonna conclude u as a Fulani .koz fulan are everywhere. Viva Fulan! And no wonder to find you have a Chinese as we'll and Vietnam koz chinese have been to somalian land, sudan and Ethiopia in the 10th century. And also Kenya especially around the coast. In fact many chinese decendats are found in the lamu coastal. The first African to enter the china land was from Somali land.
No surprise there. I know someone who visited South Africa just before Nelson Mandela was declared President. The tour guide spoke in the South African language to another person. The Kenyan said that the language was closer to Kikuyu than Kamba, and proved it by paraphrasing what the South African had just said.
the Arabian slave trade was around the east African shore lines and as a result some of the Bantu population near the areas has the middle eastern gene.
Nothing strange in those results. Africans to the south of the equator (majority being Bantu) migrated from the West, North and Central Africa to populate those empty spaces. Being a Kenyan you shouldn't be surprised by traces of middle eastern DNA when our entire coast has been inhabited by Arabs for centuries. How did we end up with Swahili as a language?
The 12 percent Middle Eastern are those first Africans who settled in that region you share genes there. Repeatedly no matter if East Africans are Semitic speakers, Cushitic speakers, Nilo-Saharan, or Niger Congo (Bantu) there are going to be East African matches to the Middle East region. This is not a "reverse migration" versus shared ancestry in the majority of cases of African genes being classed as "Middle Eastern." It's a de-Africanization hoodwink.
So true, the indegenous east Africans in Kenya had the cushitic blood. They were fully assimilated to extinction. Which is why some Kenyan eastern bantus talk of Egypt, it's the indegenous people who were in Sudan which was colonised by Egypt.
@@badroad4610 All the founding haplogroups of Western Asia were haplogroup E1b1 paternally and M and N maternally. All three are oldest, most frequent, and most diverse among living Africans today. That's how you know the genes are African. Furthermore, Africans also have the older branches of other haplogroups claiming non-African such as paternal R1b and share the same age of J1 with Southern Western Asians. So what is foundational Western Asian genetically are just African migrants.
@@kemetnubiakamp just bs E1b1 and J is caucasian race markers not black sub saharan African! Original black haplogroup is A And B ones ! And you mostly find E1b1 and J markers in mixed populations like horn Africa in sub Sahara Africa otherwise it is extremely rare among none mixed populations in sub Sahara Africa while it the main marker among entire north African caucasians and big chunks of west Asian and European caucasian! You better go and check your own A and B markers instead and btw in most populations in sub Sahara Africa who has E1b1 is from father side exclusively for obvious reasons 🤣
@@badroad4610 Who are those imaginary Caucasians? Please explain their history of genocide outside of Africa. They had to have a genocide because nowhere in the Caucasus are E1b1 or J1 at the age or match to Africans. Africans didn't receive their genes from non-Africans. We know this because Africans still this day have the oldest branches of genes claimed to be foreign. There for non-Africans including Caucasians who have genes within these haplogroups must have conducted genocide on all those with older genes outside of Africa because today the parent haplogroups DEYap and the matches of E1b1b are among Africans East and West.
Maybe you had some Berber ancestry, they travel across huge distances, have largely West Asian DNA, but with substantial admixture from the Sahel and West Africa.
Not likely ..... Buut ,It is a little known fact that one of the present-day Gulf states was once a significant empire, the likes of which even the then superpowers, Portugal and Britain, found difficult to confront. The Omani Sultanate was a major maritime force from 17th to 19th centuries, and established its dominance in the Indian Ocean sea routes by defeating the mighty Portuguese navy. Oman’s empire encompassed vast strips of southwest Iran, most of the north-eastern and southern parts of the Arabian peninsula, and much of the Horn of Africa coast, all the way down till northern Mozambique. And nowhere are the remnants of the empire more apparent than in Zanzibar.Ngome Kongwe, Old Fort, Stone Town, Zanzibar
@@alexchad98 we have this Arab/Oman/Portuguese /African mixture in the whole EA coast eg Mombasa. Interesting is she comes from Mt Kenya where they never set foot. Kikuyu tribe
Yup. They were a ship of Chinese traders who had come to Mombasa. They became shipwrecked and couldn't go back to China, so they settled at the coast and married the women there. Recently, the Chinese even came back to do DNA tests on the Bantu/Chinese descendants there and a girl even got a scholarship to study in China.
I think that you are misinterpreting your results. The way this DNA thing works, is they collect data from participants that just happen to be from all over the world. Since Africans were the first of all humans, literally EVERYONE comes from you. There may be a Chinese person that has some relation to you in China for example, but that does not mean that YOU have Chinese ancestry, rather, THEY have African ancestry. When they list DNA results, they basically list down each region where your specific matches can be found. Since African's commonly migrated to different regions inside and outside the continent, it is not surprising that you may share ancestry with people all over the world. Those people are descended from you, not the other way around. You are interpreting these results in reverse.
@@njeridiva85 you are totally oblivious to how these DNA haplogroupings work. I am not even going to entertain giving you a crash course on how they match you with groups of people based on your DNA sample. Suffice to say everything you stated is totally irrelevant to DNA testing. But hey, belief is a powerful human tool to cope with things we may be ignorant of. So my dude, by all means indulge in your belief!
@@astroprotector first..not a dude...proud owner of a vagina here...second your opinion is irrelevant if you cant substantiate what you're saying but i also happen to not really care either way.. Third...have a great day.
There was no tribe as agikuyu,300 yrs ago, the so-called agikuyu myth of mumbi hides their root. The agikuyu came from Shungwaya which is around River Tana in Somalia.there were the nine Swahili clans,the Akamba,Meru,Taita,Embu there too.All this tribes claim to be escaping from slavery, while the Somalis who were inhabiting the area,said Shungwaya was a slave trading post.Their is a huge possibility slaveraiders in Central Africa brought them to Shungwaya for trading in Middle East.The Maasai come from the Galla(oromo). They were a ferocious tribe and controlled all of kenya and East Africa interior. Something happened in Shungwaya.the Agikuyu came with the rest through kenya coast and went to central kenya as late as 17th century.they were escaping slavery from Shungwaya,and are very much related to their neighbours.The entry of Europeans weakened the Maasai(galla-oromo).
@@PaddyKish254 surrounding tribes, especially in the coast,giriama talk of a group of nine people,mostly women over 300 years ago,who had escaped from Shungwaya, they asked for a fig tree, incidentally fig tree is known as mkuyu in bantu, this is the origin of name agikuyu, the fig tree is sacred in bantu and gikuyu culture,could this nine be gikuyu and mumbi?
@@fredrickoballa829 According to our folklore that myself herd from my granpa and his before him...your statement is part of it. We do have two types of kyuks though, Pure and mix with two different origins. I saw someone say that kikuyu was a religion shared by an amalgamation of different people of different origins and I do know we have a history of heavy intermarriage with all people of all walks of life. I have lived my life being told I look maasai (whatever that means). For one I am glad each of us is a mixture. Maybe it will one day help us deal with tribalism in Kenya since being educated seems not to work.
@@PaddyKish254 all the neighbours of agikuyu,whom they share words with like akamba,ameru,aembu claim they came via coast from shungwaya,while the coastal tribes call you their cousins,barjuni are mixture of Arab and giriama,they have a story about a group of people who had escaped from shungwaya,and liked to seat under a sacred fig tree,everyone nicknamed mkuyu,and the name stuck,while agikuyu tradition only talks about mumbi and the nine daughters coming from heaven.about the maasai they owned like 3rd of kenya,they did this through intermarriage purko clan is mixture of gikuyu and maasai,mosainek is mixture of maasai and kipsigis,siria clan is maasai and luo, isiraria is maasai and kisii.
@@fredrickoballa829 The Gikuyu did arrive in central province through shungwaya but that was only a stop. Their migration can be traced back through ethiopia (place called kuyu) and further into Egypt. About the mumbi and gikuyu theory of origin it point's to the agikuyu being of two ways, the original ones (karing'a: they worshipped 3 star gods) and the hebrews (kabiru: they had a theory of creation of Gikuyu and mumbi) who came down through Ethiopia to settle around mt kenya and assimilated the tribes living in and around the kenyan highlands. These kabiru kikuyus traditions were eerie similar to traditional Egyptian practices and kind of sealed off mt kenya region from outsiders for centuries if not millennia (why slave trade didn't happen in the mt kenya region and its environs (maasai were also a ferocious people). When white settlers wanted to explore mt kenya (to look for the covenant and scrolls) they were asked to also seek permission from seers in Axum (Ethiopia) since they were also a key part of the religion and mt kenya seers were only keepers of the covenant. Long story short the Europeans screwd africa sideways. 1939 was a sad year in the agikuyu history...the whites put paid to the handover ceremony (ituĩka) and the elders went with centuries/millennia of knowledge and tradition to their graves and those who were apprentices were brainwashed into Christianity. Mugo wa Kibiru was the last great sear of the Kikuyu. All this is available in the kikuyu museum....had to go look for it.
Sistar I'm Nigerian physically you looking 100% Africans you not hv any The features of the Middle East or North Africa populations in those areas are genetically different from the West African population .. And I formed you from West Africa so I advise you not to trust the Dna analysis at all
@@mikailm6934 you are the only one who knows your stuff in the comment section. Others are just throwing guesses and fictional theories to make sense of her dna.
@@adowabdi7894 thanks. Direct middle Eastern admixture in Kenya is very minimal, genetic studies on Swahili groups from coastal Kenya show they assimilated more cushite/nilote than arabs, arab ancestry is maybe 5% on average including a minority of outliers(those with more visible "arab" features). If the arab admixture is minimal in the coast, in central or western Kenya it's basically non existent.
You seem more proud of your middle eastern ancestry.. 😥 your pride should come from tour subsaharan bloodline . Kings and queens !! The arabs do not Claim us and treat us like trash in their country
Not more PROUD more SURPRISED. I think my enthusiasm can be a little misinterpreted. I was shocked. Imagine you finding out something about yourself you never knew or thought about. I am and have always been proud of being Kenyan that’s what I claimed before and now.
I just uploaded my updated Ancestry results and they’ve for sure changed since this video! Watch right here th-cam.com/video/JeE8V7gJx_E/w-d-xo.html
Kikuyus intermarried with Somalis that is why you have middle eastern DNA
I am a kikuyu Kenyan light skinned and sometimes I wonder we’re my light skin comes from is that a stupid question 😂
5 weeks later
I got my results and it said 10% Middle Eastern. 90% East African. 5% Native American
SHOOK
Watu light wako Africa. It doesn't mean necessarily it's from outside.
My guess is 35% of Kikiyu will show recent 2-25% Asian and European. 4% Nilotic. 40% other non Congo. Kenya Luo 60% Nilo-Sudanic, 30% East Bantu, 10% Saharan from ancient Egyptian. More latter.
Thyphon YT 😂😂
U guys still dnt know that the omans once ruled the kenyan coast... Ohhh comeon
asthma attack I think she meant nonafrican African 10% who knows lol
05:41 . you're welcome
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Hey Yvonne it looks like Ancestry updated their database...the results have changed dramatically. By the way, you and I have been matched as distant cousins by both ancestry and gedmatch. If you haven't already figured out how to use the different calculators: the Puntdnal k10 ancient is the best for Kikuyu. I hope you don't mind but I've already checked your results and they are pretty consistent with most other Kikuyu. According to that calculator you've been identified as roughly 96% Kikuyu and the rest some other middle eastern ethnicity or what's really interesting is that you've also been pegged as 61% Maasai and 39% North Eastern Bantu. It kinda makes sense seeing that Maasai and Kikuyu culture is intertwined. For instance we use "Ngai" instead of the more Bantu mulungu or mungu. Our age-set system was derived from the Maasai. Etc... I should add that North Eastern Bantu is similar to Luhya, Kisii or a typical Bantu individual who lives in any one of the East African countries (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda).
Girl I knew there was something I liked about you, we’re family! That’s amazing I don’t mind at all that you looked up my information I’ll do the same and yup you’re right about the Ancestry results changing drastically I’ve been meaning to do an update. Its super interesting. Thank you so much for sharing! Also, I’d love to stay in contact my name is Yvonne.Mugure on IG please send me a DM when you’re available!
Ikr! We're family for sure! My gedmatch kit number is A462173 if you want to check out my results. Alas! I'm not on IG (yet). Can't wait for your video update. I'm considering doing one as well that will address my gedmatch results.
There are so many cultures to just be lumped in with over 10 countries. That whole southeastern Bantu thing was ridiculous. Extending all the way from Uganda to South Africa? Ridiculous. They just don’t have enough data to get actual East African results. I’ve noticed this. We always get lumped with the whole of Africa, because of the lack of knowledge on who we actually are.
You have spoken like a clan of elders! Thank you!!!
You should be happy that you have Bantus, all of us has Bantu in us from the Americas it means that you are Hebrew Bantus which is connected to the bible , I guess you guys are shocked to know that one!!!
That's Bantu specifically
@@isiomaamma9869 no we are not
I think they could get more specific results if they had more samples to compare against, which just means more African people would need to get the test/provide Ancestry DNA with their DNA.
Jeez it took her 5 minutes to get to the actual video
Okay for me this whole thing can get quite confusing... my DNA results say I'm 60% African but within that number I'm 36% Nigerian but what it didn't say is that I'm Hausa Fulani from Northern Nigeria... but my mother is L3e1e haplogroup and my father is E-M4254 haplogroup which both are found in high concentrations in East Africa.
I've gotten a lot of suggestions to try gedmatch too. What do you guys think?
I would try it to compare it to the one you have already done.
Estone Njuguna Thank you🤗 I’ll probably do an updated video with those results too!
You are most likely Kikuyu, many Kikuyu have cushitic dna from Arabia. The language is Bantu, but had lots of migration from Arabia. Gikuyu and Mumbi would most have likely come from the middle east and his daughters married by the Bantu who moved from West Africa.
marx I am Kikuyu! I didn’t know that prior to taking the test and heck afterwards. I’m doing so much more research now!
"You are most likely Kikuyu, many Kikuyu have cushitic dna from Arabia. The language is Bantu, but had lots of migration from Arabia. Gikuyu and Mumbi would most have likely come from the middle east and his daughters married by the Bantu who moved from West Africa."...guesswork. do you have evidence for your claim of bantu migration from west Africa? it is all what you have been taught from the greenberg hypothesis of bantu expansion from west Africa the border between nigeria and cameroon. The cushitics are e3b1b and e1b1b which are horn of African/african in origin. They do have some genes from arabia through admixture, but they are not from arabia and their roots can be traced back to africa and not to the arabian pensula. the arabia genes are arab genes and not cushite genes. your story of Gikuyu and mumbi migrations from the middle east is fake. The kikuyu, just like the cushites get their arabian genes through admixture with the arabs considering their are arabs in Kenya and the swahili coast covered coast Kenya. since kikuyu are bantu then gikuyu and mumbi were bantu and the names mumbi and gikuyu are bantu in linguistic origin. stop making up things out of stupidity. are you begging for the kikuyu to be arabs? stop your nonsense. please do not show your stupidity.
Your results ain’t too uncommon for an East African many East Africans especially ones from or near the Horn have North African or middle eastern admixture
Yea the more ancestry videos I watch and research I do I the more I realize that as well!
Polishinggold Yes so I’m sure the videos you’ve seen I’ve noticed how nearly all East Africans Kenyans,Ethiopians,Somalians,Eritreans,etc have North African or middle eastern in there results
Reis Anderson Yes they do! I honestly thought it was just them though as silly as that sounds I was prepared for my own results😩
Kenyan/Canaan history is in the Bible.
as a Somali I totally agree. It's so annoying when everyone (non-horn Africans) try to explain what we are to us especially when the things they claim ain't true. it's like they forgot the everyone came from east Africa and not the other way round.
Your results aren’t weird at all trust me. In the coast Kenya there was a lot of trading with middle eastern/central asian countries and many moved to Kenya, Tanzania and have lived there and intermarried with locals. Kenya has many ethnic groups/tribes and we are more mixed in with all the tribes than we think that’s why your results are so diverse. I think I was more shocked you had North African and had so little central Africa
Yea I learned more about he migration after filming this video and I was shocked about the North African too!
And the East African Arab slave trade of Africans.
Sallie Andrea the funny thing is she is not from the cost of kenya she's from the interior of Kenyan
Exactly totally agree with you, i've been saying that many Sub-Saharan countries been having admixtures as well...for some reason a lot of people don't wanna buy it...don't know why.
They pretend that Sub-Saharan African can't have admixtures...but yes I'm 100% down with u on that one
Cheetah 6 but it happened in Kenya.Did you know Arab slave traders were the first outsiders to see lake Victoria.
East Africans are predominately mixed anyway so don’t be shocked!
Allison N No they aren’t. East Africa is basically known as giving “birth” to the whole world. Most civilization started there. I’m really getting bored and annoyed by these “mixed” B.S. about East Africans. Just because we have features that aren’t deemed “African” doesn’t make us less African than any other country. We are indigenous, and a DNA test that barely has East African samples cannot really tell me where I am from when I can can count all the way back to 20-30 ancestors before me.
NaH I don’t care how you feel about that. I believe East Africans are mixed. Why did you think your comment would change my opinion. Sleep
Allison N looool, “sleep”. What are you, a child? Believe wtf you want. Did I come here to change your opinion, no tf I didn’t. I came here to correct your dumbass. Also, it really shows how insecure you are babes. Are you mad that we have the features we wanted without intermingling with other races? Sad life that Africans have nowadays. Self hate isn’t good. Change your mentality and love yourself for who you are.
Indeed exactly!!!
@@hani114 Yes East Africans are mixed...fact!!
Most Kenyan East African Bantus (Including Kikuyu, Meru, Kamba, Taita) have 4% to 37% Somali, Borana/Oromo, Ethiopian or middle Eastern DNA. Some Nilotic groups like Maasai; Samburu also have some Cushitic DNA.......And? Somalis and Ethiopians too have some percentage of Bantu DNA in them.
Kenyan Luos have from 5% Bantu in them hahaha. Basically, we all have a piece of each other. I am a Meru and seeing a Meru with some Cushitic features (like one of my daughters or family members) has never been a surprise because we border Somalis to the North and Boranas to the west.
Wait go back a bit. How do Somali's and Ethiopian play in Kenya. Ancestory .please explain
Most people don't know but taitas are barely Bantu. They have alot of Somali and Galla DNA even their language is part cushitic.
Kenyan Bantus originated from west Africa,especially Congo/Cameroon.Arabs intermarried with Bantus who were at the east African coast,so that's where the middleast come from.
Mahad Mohammed that would have been the case if she was from the coastal region which she wasn't also the Arabs didn't pass through Kenya to reach Uganda because there tribes in the interior were too hostile opting to go through Tanzania so there shouldn't be any Arab mixture in her
That whole Bantu migration is a lot of bullshit ... No historian or genetic research can prove it. Stop dividing us
@@MagicMike-n6u It does not require any rocket science my brother. Bantus from Congo to Kenya to South Africa share a lot. The languages share alot of words. Do you know how far it is from South Africa to Kenya? Do you think the cultures languages are shared out of nothing? They must have been at one place at some time.
@@deniskanja1952 it was the baths specifically the buganda and coastal tribes of Kenya and Tanzania who traded with the Arabs. The batus were long distance traders. So the Arabs didn't go to the interior of East Africa
@@Anonymous-km6me you need to pick up a book and read the Arabs and their mixed breed children traveled as far as Uganda, and even converted the Baganda king and his people to Islam
WOW! I THOUGHT YOU WERE NIGERIAN SINCE YOU HAVE A ROUND FACE. ALL GOOD. THANKS FOR SHARING.
Damn you look south african. When i first saw you i thought you south african. I swear if you come to South Africa people gonna speak with you in xhosa or zulu coz damn you look like an south african woman.
*"cuz DAYUM you look like a South African woman"*
Ngempela!🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾
No, she looks like a kikuyu woman 👩 from central 🇰🇪,. Just look at her nose, face, hakuna matata
Peace very interesting the mid east indeed looked like you at one time . L3 M and N mtdna had a very strong presence in the mid east . Thanks for sharing beautiful sister .
Have you checked the new updated results?
I just got the notification so I'll for sure check it out!
Where are you from sweetheart? I'm South African and I thought you were Zimbabwean, when I first viewed this video.
I was born and raised in Kenya! I hear I'm from everywhere so I can see Zimbabwean lol
Yeah she looks like a lot of girls I know.....I think it's because of common ancestry.....
charmaine jangano I hear that all the time lol
Lol! The main reason I opened this video was to see this 'Zimbabwean' ancestry test, then boom, she is Kenyan!
An Yea you should post his results my family is Jamaican I got 88% African 11% European
I for sure will post his as well! Oh wow I'm sure that must have been a little surprising to you.
Polishinggold Not really but what do you mean by surprising the African or the European???
Reis Anderson I guess I’m thinking about how surprised I was at my results so I assume everyone was but you may not have been
Reis Anderson I always thought Caribbeans are a lot more mixed than that
@@KiSUkeHaTnCLOGS depends on the island and history
The bantu migrated from the Congo basin (Cameroon & congo&parts of western Africa)
Hello Ancestry DNA just did an 2019 update to everyone’s results. Would love to see an update video from you. Thanks for sharing your results 😊
Mahogany Belle yess..I got my update and I’m pissed..drastic changes..I went from 4% Nigerian to 30% Nigerian..What kind of mess is that..high percentage difference
I just updated my updated results right here! th-cam.com/video/JeE8V7gJx_E/w-d-xo.html
TiYah Israel I know, right? Mine changed a lot too so not sure what’s going on. I can understand narrowing it down to target a specific area but when 1 or more ethnicities completely vanish....I don’t get it.
What lippie are you wearing?
I'm wearing colourpop-Limbo
thats weird. Your name suggests youve has relatives in central kenya but coast? Oral literature says we came from kongo.Kenya being the cradle of mankind one can discover the connection to other areas.What i notice too is that the kikuyu of central kenya have similar names with the japanese,there is alot we dont know
Because the Japanese are descended from a group called the Bamasaaba negroes. They are a native and indeginous among the most indeginous communities in Africa. Are prevalent in the mountainous areas such as Mt elgon in Uganda and Mt Rwenzori in south western uganda the former are now called the bagisu and the latter the bakonzo.
Cheetah 6 but why lie about such .
@Kalu V there are several kikuyu history versions so you're just talking about the one who's convenient for you. The truth is that Kikuyus have several origins as they are mixed. Their principal component is Bantu, the Bantu came from Cameroon/Congo as archeology, linguisy, genetics tells. Their second component is from the cushite who assimilated into the upcoming Bantu society, there you have your relativeness to Ethiopia, Msiri... Their third component is nilotic who also assimilated into the Bantu society and originally came from Suda. Then some pygmy affinities through the Bantu ancestors who mixed a bit with them as they traveled through the Congo forest to East Africa
The PCEA church in Kenya have an unpublished document that states that there are two groups in the ancestry of Kikuyus - Gikuyu Karinga (pure Kikuyus, presumed to have been Egyptians) and Gikuyu Kabiru (the Hebrew Kikuyus). You probably have some Gikuyu Kabiru blood in you. That could explain both the North African blood and Middle Eastern blood.
Before 1856, before the start of the construction of the Suez Canal, Africa could be reached overland from Asia. So even if you are neither Gikuyu Karinga nor Gikuyu Kabiru, you may have the blood of travellers who decided to settle on the slopes of Mount Kenya - after all, it's one of the most fertile places on planet Earth.
@alex B. There is a writer on the web by the name Emmanuel Kariuki who attempts to explain the migration of the Kikuyu to Kenya. Some of the pictures he has on his site on Hub Page appear to give compelling reasons to believe that the style of Kikuyu clothing originated in Egypt. In addition, if you take time to read through the comments, you may come across some in which there are Kikuyus who, within their clans, appear to be familiar with hieroglyphics normally associated with Egyptians. So it is possible that some Kikuyus have their origins in Egypt.
Here are some links to his work on Hub Pages.
hubpages.com/@emmanuelkariuki
hubpages.com/education/Kikuyu-People-Secrets-of-the-migration-from-Egypt-to-Mount-Kenya
hubpages.com/education/Akhenaten-and-the-Kikuyu
@@kenyareads6918 Thanks for sharing this
The current boundaries never existed. Indeed Africa included middle East before the Suez.
Im 49 percent cameroon congo 21 percent benin and togo born in usa 9 percent Ghana 6 percent mali
Girl if I didn't know I'd assume you were Igbo, Kongo, Hausa, and S. African. Very beautiful though. To add, many Asians, N. Americans come up with your results or area. And the middle East is on the same continental plate as Africa known as NE Africa. Nice vid😁
Funny enough I've heard Igbo before! Thank you so much thank you for watching!
Winx Believe yes she does. I'm around plenty of them. However she also looks like S. African and Hausa/Fulani.
Yvonne Mugure Anytime☺️
The Cameroon Congo percentage may have picked up on some Kikuyu genetic markers..
TiYah Israel It may have for sure! I just updated the results yesterday here it is!
th-cam.com/video/JeE8V7gJx_E/w-d-xo.html
@@Kokanga2Kalunga yes they are
Can't wait until I do mine I'll share them on TH-cam plus I want to see more Kenyans do it cause I've only seen like 4 on youtube.
Yea there aren't that many of us on TH-cam who posted their results so I'm looking forward to that too!
I wanted to, but I don't know where to start doing it
me too but i think there is a DNA puzzle theyve not found,they have alot of data bank from west africa cos of slavery but they should do more on east we are very different looking people.
I *REALLY* want to do a DNA test but my mum says that I'm 100% Kenyan
You dont have east African DNA like neighboring Nilotic and cushitic tribes of kenya?
Bantu is a group of peoples in Eastern and Southern Africa. Most peoples from these regions are Bantu. The common tie between Bantu is the word for person ... Muntu, Mudu, Mundu, etc..
Cameroon is where it is said Bantu's came from... so ... just in case you were not aware of the history of the Bantu people's...
You look very south African!
I think its that Bantu percentage its very high as she said
@@Hamorabi1234 I've noticed allot of Kenyans look similar to South africans
@@user-pi3fe2yk1b because they have nilotic and cushite ancestry who share some similar features with the khoisan(forehead,eyes, light skin from the cushite)the people southern Bantu mixed with
@@mikailm6934 nope, Kenyan eastern bantus look like Tanzanian eastern bantus and South Africans. Not entirely but clearly related.
@@kennethkyalo2684 I know, but except their common Bantu heritage, their distinct admixture can still make them look alike
Sweet. I gotta post a vid. Ancestry updated my results. But yes East Africans have measurable if not significant North African ancestry, perhaps from 3-400 years ago so overtime peoples forgot and assumed they we're 100% black due to no admixture in recent 'MEMORY.'However it can take 1000's of years for mutations to occur so those genes aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Btw genetics don't necessarily stop at borders. Being Kenyan is a national thing. I'm not 100% pure American. That's simply my nationality not my race.
Yea you should for sure post a video I would love to watch it. Very well said you just taught me some things!
I Know this weird, and out of topic,
But i went to your You tube page, to check if you posted your DNA results and then i found that you liked Ben Shapiro and Prager U videos
DOPE !!!!!!
As in Bantus came from there.Cameroon.
Cameroon don’t have Bantu language Bantu language is Kiswahili Zulu xhosa vende kirundi kinywarwanda Lingala hehe kikuyu Tswana Sesotho Tsonga swati Shona luganda Shona Ndebele and much more
And Cameroon is not in west Africa is in Central Africa
@@fcafricanunion9915 get your facts straight, Cameroon has many Bantu languages(Bulu, Douala, Sawa, Bamoun..) and the most diverse and divergent ones are found there indicating this place as the homeland. Cameroon is both in West and Central Africa, these are relative terms, Cameroon is literally inbetween Nigeria and Congo
How long did it take to get your results
Alex Thurman About 2 1/2 weeks so not too long!
How can I get my DNA?
You are Gikuyu... You names means something in Kikuyu and you look like Kikuyu beautiful and entrepreneurs.. People from central Kenya.
isabella gathoni I am kikuyu for sure!
@@YvonneMugure yes your name means that your are bought
isabella gathoni lol I know🙈
@@YvonneMugure With the Precious Blood of Our Saviour, of course!
The idea that DNA results would shock someone is itself surprising considering that African borders are recent. Why don't you guys read a book? How on earth can you believe DNA would belong to a country when people move all the time? My grandfathers alone live in 3 different countries, so why would I be surprised?
Gideon K thanks for your input!
Hey...am not surprised by your results, West Africa ,central Africa, East African is all bantu region...people from kenya came from Cameroon ,congo and Nigeria then migrated Eastwards.....the Arab and jewish part is not surprising either since we have arabs and semites in East Africa.....your case is nothing new...not surprised at all
We know history. There no bantus in western africa. None...
@loisendiritu6575 west african tribes are bantu.....east african bantu came from Nigeria and Cameron...example of tribes beti..bassa ...bakundu...maka and doula.
Really no reason to be surprised by the results. Your Southern Bantu/Congo/Cameroon/Benin/Nigeria results are 100% unsurprising. You are BANTU after all! We are talking DNA lineage that goes back millennia. Secondly the Middle East results are just as unsurprising. Many Kenya Bantu especially from around Mt Kenya have had fairly recent interactions with Hamitic/Cushitic people who ultimately have large portions of Middle East DNA.
All eastern bantus have that cushitic mix. Infact taitas are the most mixed, they are hardly bantus.
Majority of est Africans have genetic source from middle est and north Africa.
Specially Ethiopian and Somalian.
God you wasted so much time before getting to the point miss Mugure. i almost gave up. thanks for the video though
You didn’t give up and that’s the important part. Thanks!
@@YvonneMugure ha ha tuche'
Love your hair
You are very pretty. Listen to the elders because they are right, Bantus came from North Africa in the area of Israel and then they went into Egypt and continued expanding, Central, South and even a few went West. God has confirmed to me that some African groups were Hebrews who went into the Trans-Atlantic slavery, but not all the captured tribes were Israelites. I have no doubt the Bantus are one of those groups who came from Israel, but there are others in Africa. Israel was considered part of Africa in Biblical times and shares the same tectonic plate. Your elders are not lying about their origin.
I’m scared to take the test 💯cuz I was born in Tanzania 🇹🇿 but my parents r completely different they claim they
💯 Burundians🇧🇮 but my mom is mixed wit something I can tell n I look jus like my mom lol she’s beautiful ❤️N Yvonne is my niece name aweee-I’m just scared to see the reality
I completely feel you about being scared. I was a little apprehensive but trust me I'm so glad I did! I'm sure you'll be surprised by your results too. I've learned through this test and the feedback of so many here on TH-cam that our ancestors traveled sooo much so you can honestly be from a lot pf places or just a few!
Then you will have a Ueroasia. Koz Burund and Rwanda many originated from Cushitic lands. And in the cushitics land is nearby Kenya. Then simply u will be an East African with a high percentage that is Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, then you will have west asia or south asia koz of a mixture of cushite people, then u gonna have with a Europe staff that is either Itally or any other. Then we gonna conclude u as a Fulani .koz fulan are everywhere. Viva Fulan! And no wonder to find you have a Chinese as we'll and Vietnam koz chinese have been to somalian land, sudan and Ethiopia in the 10th century. And also Kenya especially around the coast. In fact many chinese decendats are found in the lamu coastal. The first African to enter the china land was from Somali land.
Please take it😭😭🙏🏾🙏🏾. I’m doing mine in 3weeks time,my mom is Burundian and my dad is from Cameroon,I’d like to see what my ancestry will reveal
Who said Burundians are ugly
We are claiming you in South Africa!
Lol I'll happily agree to it!
No surprise there. I know someone who visited South Africa just before Nelson Mandela was declared President. The tour guide spoke in the South African language to another person. The Kenyan said that the language was closer to Kikuyu than Kamba, and proved it by paraphrasing what the South African had just said.
@@kenyareads6918 I now wanna know what was said...
That's very cool. I've noticed people from eastern countries in Africa often receive some middle east too
Yes, I've noticed it too. I learned after filming this video about all the migration that happened.
the Arabian slave trade was around the east African shore lines and as a result some of the Bantu population near the areas has the middle eastern gene.
BIG UP KENYA 🇰🇪
i can given you a Kenyan name and tribe
Nothing strange in those results. Africans to the south of the equator (majority being Bantu) migrated from the West, North and Central Africa to populate those empty spaces. Being a Kenyan you shouldn't be surprised by traces of middle eastern DNA when our entire coast has been inhabited by Arabs for centuries. How did we end up with Swahili as a language?
Eerrmm...Swahili is from the coastal Swahili (and I mean the natives) pple who're Bantus with a little of Arabic, Portuguese and Persian.
The 12 percent Middle Eastern are those first Africans who settled in that region you share genes there. Repeatedly no matter if East Africans are Semitic speakers, Cushitic speakers, Nilo-Saharan, or Niger Congo (Bantu) there are going to be East African matches to the Middle East region. This is not a "reverse migration" versus shared ancestry in the majority of cases of African genes being classed as "Middle Eastern." It's a de-Africanization hoodwink.
So true, the indegenous east Africans in Kenya had the cushitic blood. They were fully assimilated to extinction. Which is why some Kenyan eastern bantus talk of Egypt, it's the indegenous people who were in Sudan which was colonised by Egypt.
Total BS
@@badroad4610 All the founding haplogroups of Western Asia were haplogroup E1b1 paternally and M and N maternally. All three are oldest, most frequent, and most diverse among living Africans today. That's how you know the genes are African. Furthermore, Africans also have the older branches of other haplogroups claiming non-African such as paternal R1b and share the same age of J1 with Southern Western Asians. So what is foundational Western Asian genetically are just African migrants.
@@kemetnubiakamp just bs E1b1 and J is caucasian race markers not black sub saharan African! Original black haplogroup is A And B ones ! And you mostly find E1b1 and J markers in mixed populations like horn Africa in sub Sahara Africa otherwise it is extremely rare among none mixed populations in sub Sahara Africa while it the main marker among entire north African caucasians and big chunks of west Asian and European caucasian! You better go and check your own A and B markers instead and btw in most populations in sub Sahara Africa who has E1b1 is from father side exclusively for obvious reasons 🤣
@@badroad4610 Who are those imaginary Caucasians? Please explain their history of genocide outside of Africa. They had to have a genocide because nowhere in the Caucasus are E1b1 or J1 at the age or match to Africans. Africans didn't receive their genes from non-Africans. We know this because Africans still this day have the oldest branches of genes claimed to be foreign. There for non-Africans including Caucasians who have genes within these haplogroups must have conducted genocide on all those with older genes outside of Africa because today the parent haplogroups DEYap and the matches of E1b1b are among Africans East and West.
U look taita Kikuyu is just a religion the people in it are from other counties and countries
First time hearing. So Kikuyu is not an actual ethnic group?
@@KalelaChannel whoever said that doesn't know wtf they are talking about.
I think this makes sense...😂
Yess if you have read our history most east africans migrated from cameroon.
Where are you from in east Africa eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia or Djibouti?
you should take 23andme too!
Yea I've heard that before so I'll for sure think about it!
you name is Mugure thats means you are Kikuyu ,Those ancestry DNA test they do are just con men and women
Answers lie in knowledge, you cannot discount science whether a mûgikûyû or otherwise.
@Kinyua Kariithi,you are an idiot brav,take it as a compliment.
Chun Li Ho Queen yes finally someone who speaks my language, we should get married
Chun Li Ho Queen 😂😂 I like you why shouldn’t we benefit from this
Pls read the Omani empire in EAfrica
Beautiful!
Luando Lloyd Thank you!
Mugure: I'm 12% middle Eastern
USA: We've got some Democracy to spread.
Maybe you had some Berber ancestry, they travel across huge distances, have largely West Asian DNA, but with substantial admixture from the Sahel and West Africa.
Maybe, I'm not certain but I'm excited to dive deeper into these results!
Not likely ..... Buut ,It is a little known fact that one of the present-day Gulf states was once a significant empire, the likes of which even the then superpowers, Portugal and Britain, found difficult to confront. The Omani Sultanate was a major maritime force from 17th to 19th centuries, and established its dominance in the Indian Ocean sea routes by defeating the mighty Portuguese navy.
Oman’s empire encompassed vast strips of southwest Iran, most of the north-eastern and southern parts of the Arabian peninsula, and much of the Horn of Africa coast, all the way down till northern Mozambique. And nowhere are the remnants of the empire more apparent than in Zanzibar.Ngome Kongwe, Old Fort, Stone Town, Zanzibar
@@alexchad98 we have this Arab/Oman/Portuguese /African mixture in the whole EA coast eg Mombasa. Interesting is she comes from Mt Kenya where they never set foot. Kikuyu tribe
@@alexchad98 that is nonsense. Omani Sultanate did not control the coast of Horn of Africa. It was restricted to Swahili states and Oman.
Unaweza uongea sheng' ?🤣
Naongea sheng' kidogo tu
umeniua
Kenyan in lamu look Chinese and history shows zheng hee a Chinese navigator came with 2thousand men who married kenyan women all the into kamba land
Yup. They were a ship of Chinese traders who had come to Mombasa. They became shipwrecked and couldn't go back to China, so they settled at the coast and married the women there. Recently, the Chinese even came back to do DNA tests on the Bantu/Chinese descendants there and a girl even got a scholarship to study in China.
The genes they left didn't impact Kenya as a whole, not even 5% of the Kenyan population
I think that you are misinterpreting your results. The way this DNA thing works, is they collect data from participants that just happen to be from all over the world. Since Africans were the first of all humans, literally EVERYONE comes from you. There may be a Chinese person that has some relation to you in China for example, but that does not mean that YOU have Chinese ancestry, rather, THEY have African ancestry. When they list DNA results, they basically list down each region where your specific matches can be found. Since African's commonly migrated to different regions inside and outside the continent, it is not surprising that you may share ancestry with people all over the world. Those people are descended from you, not the other way around. You are interpreting these results in reverse.
delete this as it shows high levels of ignorance on your part.
@@astroprotector Im actually intrigued by your comment as i have done a bit of reading up on this type of testing... Please elaborate
@@njeridiva85 you are totally oblivious to how these DNA haplogroupings work. I am not even going to entertain giving you a crash course on how they match you with groups of people based on your DNA sample. Suffice to say everything you stated is totally irrelevant to DNA testing. But hey, belief is a powerful human tool to cope with things we may be ignorant of. So my dude, by all means indulge in your belief!
@@astroprotector first..not a dude...proud owner of a vagina here...second your opinion is irrelevant if you cant substantiate what you're saying but i also happen to not really care either way.. Third...have a great day.
njeridiva just admit you're wrong 😂
Are you having a problem? That's why it's called your ancestry.
I’m doing great! What do you mean a problem?
You look kamba tribe from Kenya. Kibwezi area
They look cushitic
No tribalism intended but what is your tribe?
I didn't think that was your intention at all so no worries. I'm Kikuyu!
There was no tribe as agikuyu,300 yrs ago, the so-called agikuyu myth of mumbi hides their root. The agikuyu came from Shungwaya which is around River Tana in Somalia.there were the nine Swahili clans,the Akamba,Meru,Taita,Embu there too.All this tribes claim to be escaping from slavery, while the Somalis who were inhabiting the area,said Shungwaya was a slave trading post.Their is a huge possibility slaveraiders in Central Africa brought them to Shungwaya for trading in Middle East.The Maasai come from the Galla(oromo). They were a ferocious tribe and controlled all of kenya and East Africa interior. Something happened in Shungwaya.the Agikuyu came with the rest through kenya coast and went to central kenya as late as 17th century.they were escaping slavery from Shungwaya,and are very much related to their neighbours.The entry of Europeans weakened the Maasai(galla-oromo).
I wanna know how you know this...not attacking you, just curious brother.
@@PaddyKish254 surrounding tribes, especially in the coast,giriama talk of a group of nine people,mostly women over 300 years ago,who had escaped from Shungwaya, they asked for a fig tree, incidentally fig tree is known as mkuyu in bantu, this is the origin of name agikuyu, the fig tree is sacred in bantu and gikuyu culture,could this nine be gikuyu and mumbi?
@@fredrickoballa829 According to our folklore that myself herd from my granpa and his before him...your statement is part of it. We do have two types of kyuks though, Pure and mix with two different origins. I saw someone say that kikuyu was a religion shared by an amalgamation of different people of different origins and I do know we have a history of heavy intermarriage with all people of all walks of life. I have lived my life being told I look maasai (whatever that means). For one I am glad each of us is a mixture. Maybe it will one day help us deal with tribalism in Kenya since being educated seems not to work.
@@PaddyKish254 all the neighbours of agikuyu,whom they share words with like akamba,ameru,aembu claim they came via coast from shungwaya,while the coastal tribes call you their cousins,barjuni are mixture of Arab and giriama,they have a story about a group of people who had escaped from shungwaya,and liked to seat under a sacred fig tree,everyone nicknamed mkuyu,and the name stuck,while agikuyu tradition only talks about mumbi and the nine daughters coming from heaven.about the maasai they owned like 3rd of kenya,they did this through intermarriage purko clan is mixture of gikuyu and maasai,mosainek is mixture of maasai and kipsigis,siria clan is maasai and luo, isiraria is maasai and kisii.
@@fredrickoballa829 The Gikuyu did arrive in central province through shungwaya but that was only a stop. Their migration can be traced back through ethiopia (place called kuyu) and further into Egypt. About the mumbi and gikuyu theory of origin it point's to the agikuyu being of two ways, the original ones (karing'a: they worshipped 3 star gods) and the hebrews (kabiru: they had a theory of creation of Gikuyu and mumbi) who came down through Ethiopia to settle around mt kenya and assimilated the tribes living in and around the kenyan highlands. These kabiru kikuyus traditions were eerie similar to traditional Egyptian practices and kind of sealed off mt kenya region from outsiders for centuries if not millennia (why slave trade didn't happen in the mt kenya region and its environs (maasai were also a ferocious people). When white settlers wanted to explore mt kenya (to look for the covenant and scrolls) they were asked to also seek permission from seers in Axum (Ethiopia) since they were also a key part of the religion and mt kenya seers were only keepers of the covenant. Long story short the Europeans screwd africa sideways. 1939 was a sad year in the agikuyu history...the whites put paid to the handover ceremony (ituĩka) and the elders went with centuries/millennia of knowledge and tradition to their graves and those who were apprentices were brainwashed into Christianity. Mugo wa Kibiru was the last great sear of the Kikuyu. All this is available in the kikuyu museum....had to go look for it.
Bt yo face, nose, u a bantu from East Africa dearest
You look like nitraa b (TH-camr)
She looks Kikuyu or kamba
A. K I’m all the way Kikuyu!
Try another DNA test
Your a Africian queen
Amen to that!!💁🏾♀️
youre indeed beauty looks kenyan im new
You're nice thank you so much!
what about if they make a mistake i see one laydy they give a wrong dna when she ask they said it was mistake or maybe your family from there
Muntaz Issa That’s for sure a possibility but they try to avoid it by updating the results ever so often so it’s as accurate as possible
Muntaz Issa lol must be a shock bantu kikuyu with dna from north africa and middle east.
well dna is become box of padora its singing.
Beautiful
Damn you fine
nice.
Sistar I'm Nigerian physically you looking 100% Africans you not hv any The features of the Middle East or North Africa populations in those areas are genetically different from the West African population .. And I formed you from West Africa so I advise you not to trust the Dna analysis at all
but the middle east is Africa.......
Noo.its asia.lol
@alex B. No,middle east countries are Iraq,Israel,Iran,etc.(eastern asia).Sahara desert chad,Egypt,Libya,etc,basically African countries.
@alex B. Yeah
Wear modestly
I'm literally only showing 1 shoulder
Moshe Juma And who are you to tell her what to do? Mind your business
Too much make-up.
If you are Waswahili these results are not shocking due to trade from the Swahili empire.
They never intermingled with Kikuyus
@@rosewambui8026 maybe now but that wasn't always the case before the british arrived.
@@12thpls wrong. The middle East comes from the cushites who themselves have this component and assimilated amongst the Bantu
@@mikailm6934 you are the only one who knows your stuff in the comment section. Others are just throwing guesses and fictional theories to make sense of her dna.
@@adowabdi7894 thanks. Direct middle Eastern admixture in Kenya is very minimal, genetic studies on Swahili groups from coastal Kenya show they assimilated more cushite/nilote than arabs, arab ancestry is maybe 5% on average including a minority of outliers(those with more visible "arab" features). If the arab admixture is minimal in the coast, in central or western Kenya it's basically non existent.
You seem more proud of your middle eastern ancestry.. 😥 your pride should come from tour subsaharan bloodline . Kings and queens !! The arabs do not Claim us and treat us like trash in their country
Not more PROUD more SURPRISED. I think my enthusiasm can be a little misinterpreted. I was shocked. Imagine you finding out something about yourself you never knew or thought about. I am and have always been proud of being Kenyan that’s what I claimed before and now.
@@YvonneMugure okay I understand