I've watched about 50 of these videos but for some reason this one got me a bit emotional. Great results brotha. I listened to the whole thing. My Grandfather was a Gullah from NC. I can't wait to do this too!
Really!!...I'm more than glad it touched you!!! Great to meet you!!! It's impacting in a mentally revolutionary way,....when all of your life,....you thought you would never know anything about the bulk of your identity,...when it doesn't fit in wholly with the mainstream representation of a society,.......and all of a sudden .....YOU DO!!!! It's kind of impacting in a predestined kind of way,....when you were asking those questions,.....but there are REALLY hinting signposts along the way,......that show you the way. It's still shakes me, knowing that for my direct maternal lineage,.....African Ancestry(the company) did the analysis on my birthday,......not knowing when it was,.....and the ancestry certificate has the date on it. I always say,....it must have been like a rebirth for me. On the other hand I really do believe a great deal of the problems we deal with in Afro-America, is that we don't know who we are. The latest memory most of have of our beginnings,........is one rising up from the shambles of slavery,.....a history we didn't create,...but one we were constantly reacting to whether passively or non compromisingly. I don't think we'll recover by becoming bitter afro-centrics, but by discovering who we are in an African context,.....understanding the history of Africa or as I like to say the in depth story of Africa, and coming to know the substance of ourselves in our OWN CONTEXT,.....that is the story of Africa before the Atlantic Slave Trade and the colonial era. I'm going to take the admixture test soon,.....my guess is my highest African percentage will come out of Ghana/Ivory Coast.
+Elsbeth Mareile Yes!!! Without biases or distorted impressions we've picked up along the way for whatever reason,.......there is something subtle with us,...that always resonates the truth. It's affirming and solidifying making us know the Creator is near. There are times our fear cause us to lose sight.....of an echoed truth. Regardless,....bam!!!!!!.......If we really want to know it,......It always finds a way to smack us back in the face. Thanks again!!! for your comment
I am of the Temne and all I know is I love my people wherever we are and wherever we are from in Africa. My family. I really enjoy hearing us experience this amazing awakening of who we really are. I find that many of our stories are so similar. It is as if our African hearts are upon the same spiritual path. That is special. I can feel it each time I listen to us speak out story. I can listen to our stories being told all day long. We are a people of the greatest stories on earth. Our story has never ended. We are but entering a new chapter. One of hope and fulfillment. May our Ancestor of Ancestors keep is in mercy. Ameen.
This is so beautiful. I was so intrigued listening to your story. You have such a beautiful spirit. The moment I clicked on your video I could tell you have Ghanaian blood. Even your mannerism are practically the same. I am 100% Senegambian from Ancestry, and Seereer patrilineally and matrilineally from African Ancestry. I am a pure Seereer - no surprise there. I belong to the Seereer patriclan Joof, and the Seereer matriclan Taa'boor. The motto of my patrlineage is "The secret to success is the willingness to serve without aspiring for rewards." The motto of our matriclan is "We control the element of fire!" The giraffe and antelope are are the totems ("tiim" in Seereer) of our patrilineage. Fire is the totem our our matriclan. I adhere to the tenets of A fat Roog (Seereer spirituality) just like my ancestors before me. It was your ancestors who were speaking to you from beyond the grave, guiding you in your journey so you can know yourself. For if you really want to know, and ask, they will guide you. Never doubt your intuition, for they are always with you. They will come when you call. You have the gift whether you know it or not. You just have to perfect it. Good luck with your journey. You have a greater purpose, something beyond materialism.
+Deb Smith Hey Deb!!! Thanks!!! that was really kind of you,......In speech, my ultimate aim is connect sincerely, and my only part is to exude what is at my inner core,........if I want the connections I've made to be authentic!!!......You feel me?......
I am so pleased with your results and the joy it brought you.my plans are to take my DNA.I cannot wait,my mother was from Jamaica and I see so much similarities with Nigerian and Ghanaian people.
this video made my day its so refreshing to see someone so passionate about their lineage. I am a Ghanaian woman living in the uk.I want to do a test to see if I have any other tribes in my blood because I think it would be very interesting because from what I know everyone in my family have been Ghanaian no where else.and by the way do you know your akan name? and also are you planning to visit Ghana anytime soon I think it would be a very beautiful and almost healing experience for you.have a nice day me nua .
+roxy amel I'm glad it brought you such a sense of revitalization. Your words mean much to me! Yes, I intend on visiting Ghana some day, definitely! A part from knowing my direct paternal lineage goes back there, and multiple other lineages; the experience I had with the Fante (Akan) cab driver in the video made me to know that my connection to the land is profound. If you are speaking of my Akan day name, it is Kwaku. What made you ask?
This is my first time listening to your video, although, I have seen it in passing...one word I can say after listening, PROFOUND...thanks for sharing I descend from Bono Akan according to AA paternal side and Bamileke maternal side....and my great grand parents both were gullah, Berkeley,sc..Nyame nkwa wo ho, god be with you bro
Yeah, the test I did had solely to do with my direct maternal(mother to mother to mother etcetera to unto the foremother that passed down the dna)lineage and direct paternal which focus on the male line just simply opposite of the maternal. The advantage of this if you test with African Ancestry(africanancestry.com), if your ancestor on either of those lineage is African they can reveal to you the tribe that individual came from, and the country. The admixture test in which you did is advantageous due to the factor it can give you a comprehensive summary of your entire genetic make up.
This is a very BEAUTIFUL video brother! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Now... I think the challenge will be before too long is finding out the very very very "ancient" name of our people.
Mo kiyin!!....Thanks man!!!....That dna test kind of served as a predictive precursor of what my heart always sort of resonated, seeing that it focused on two direct lineages, my direct maternal, & direct paternal. Direct maternal being my mother's mother's mother's lineage....the line of females,....unto the Yoruba foremother that endured the Middle Passage,...while direct paternal being the exact opposite leading to an Akan(Ashanti) forefather from Ghana. I say precursor,...seeing that I always believed the bulk of my African ancestry came from between Ghana & Nigeria. Recently, I took an admixture test & discovered 59 per cent of my ancestry originates from between Ghana & Nigeria. 28 per cent Ghana 19 per cent Nigeria, 12 per cent Benin/Togo,.....there are other places represented in much smaller percentages 8 & lower,.....but yeah the bulk of my ancestry exist between Ghana & Nigeria,...at least the African component.
Aaaaawwwwwww’ thanks!!!! That was so kind of you. Yeah, it’s interesting because in the sovereign scheme of things, in a divine sense, it’s almost interesting. It seems like my ancestors knew I would ask these questions. After discovering that the test indicated particularly the origin of a single foremother on your direct maternal,..maternal grandmother’s lineage, and single forefather on your direct paternal,....paternal grandfather’s lineage it made it all the more special, like pin pointing two needles in a hay stack with my intuitive guesses. I did the admixture test two My three highest African percentages from greatest to least were Ghana, Nigeria, & Benin/Togo which made the direct lineage tests I spoke of almost feel like wonderful precursors. Following those three from greatest to least were Mali, Senegal, Cameroon/Congo, Africa Southeastern Bantu, Africa South Central Hunter Gatherers. Over all I was 85 percent African, & then 13 percent European & 2 percent Native American.
Here are my admixture dna test results in detail from Ancestry DNA(ancestry.com). 85 percent African 28 percent Ghana/Ivory Coast 19 percent Nigeria 12 percent Benin/Togo 8 percent Mali 7 percent Senegal 4 percent Cameroon/Congo 4 percent Africa Southeastern Bantu 3 percent Africa South Central Hunter Gatherers 13 percent European 8 percent Great Britain 3 percent Ireland 1 percent Spain/Portugal >1 percent Scandinavia >1 percent Europe West(Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands,etc) 2 percent Native American (Wegene identifies it as Mayan, which specializes in East Asian & Native American dna, no surprise seeing more than one Southeastern US Native American has been found to have Mayan dna, especially the Muskogean groups & select subgroups of the Cherokees)
I'm not even African American ,but your video made me cry .Congratulations on finding out about your ancestry. Its beautiful to see how attached you are to your roots! I am Cameroonian(right next to Nigeria!) from the Barmileke tribe by the way. I'm so happy for you ! you should vissit Nigeria sometime 😊😊God bless
Thank you so much for your encouraging and kind words, they're so dear to me. They're a lot African Americans through the same genetic dna testing I've participated in have found out they're descended from the Bamileke of Cameroon.
+OrientalKings you're welcome😊 and thank you for the response .Yeah I found out that Oprah ,Erika Badu and Serena Williams defended from my tribe .Have a great day😊
+Krystie Dibeton Are you sure that Serena Williams found out she had ancestry among the Bamileke? I don't see that information anywhere on the internet.
Greetings to you from the UK 🇬🇧 watching your video really touched my heart I was sooo happy for your DNA results.. I am waiting to get mine hopefully not to long await till I'll get them my parents are from the Caribbean Mum from Jamaica & Dad from st Vincent & the Grenadines I can't wait thank you for sharing your journey & results Gods love & blessings to you 🙌
Thanks for your kind words,....that was sooo' dear of you. The results on this test reveal distinctly,...the origin of two ancestors,....one of my direct maternal lineage,...a foremother,....& one of my direct paternal lineage,....a forefather. Yet what is so great I've always believed the bulk of my African ancestry existed between the shared history, interrelated peoples between the countries of Ghana & Nigeria (Benin,..Togo sandwiched in the middle),...& it does. I also did an admixture test with ancestry.com & found out 59 per cent of my ancestry originated between Ghana & Nigeria,...Ghana/Ivory Coast 28 per cent,....19 per cent Nigeria,...12 per cent Benin/Togo. It was almost like my direct lineage testing I spoke of on this video was like a precursor to the admixture one. I talk more about the results on a video I did also on my channel called Ancestry DNA Results(Confirmation). I also have African origins in other places in lower percentages,...some European, & Native American.
OrientalKings. Thank you for your quick reply 😊 I've done mine via ancestry. Com then hopefully once I've got the funds I'd love to do the African ancestry test. I'd need to find out if I can send of for the test from the UK & how long it would take? In my younger years lol I was drawn to the Ghanaian culture I joined an African dance group that did mainly traditional Ghanaian dances I've decided once I know what my high percentage of my African ancestry is I will learn the language! I've been seeing a lot of you tube videos of many African Americans, Caribbeans black British moving to Africa especially Ghana this also warms my heart as they all say they feel they are home beautiful!! If it's ok with you ill let you know my results God bless
OrientalKings Hi just to share with you I got my Ancestry DNA results it says I am 97% African I'm 64% Nigerian 18% Ivory Coast/Ghana. 4% Cameroon/Congo. 3% Africa SE bantu regions. 3% Mali. 2% Africa south central Hunter gatherers. 2% Benin/Togo. 1% Senegal. 3% Italian/Greek. Now I want to find out what Nigerian Tribe im from 🇳🇬 I'm feeling blessed. ☺🙌 Take care & God bless
+M Henry UK More than likely seeing that 64 per cent of your ancestry comes from Nigeria,...you are connected to several Nigerian ethnic groups. Ethnic groups from Nigeria upon the direct maternal and paternal lineages of black Americans and West Indians are the Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Edo, and Kanuri.
OrientalKings Good day thanks again for your reply & information. I have contacted Ancestry DNA UK & they have no further test that I could do as to Trace my Nigerian ethnic group will have to contact African ancestry for more information Im so looking forward to this new journey of who I am & hoping to learn one of the Nigerian languages Thank you again Take care & much blessings.
Thank you for posting such a wonderful video! I was researching the different ancestry tracing kits available to get for my bf and I'm going to get this one for sure.
I admire your approach to the use of knowledge that you are clearly in abundance of when it comes to anthropology and history. I thought I'd rather comment on your page to which I subscribed to and congratulations to rediscovering your ancestral heritage, I'm genuinely happy for you. I unfortunately don't have a facebook page anymore but me and a few friends was looking to start a blog page devoted to the same topics to which we was discussing. I actually believe I could learn a lot from your understanding and knowledge of ancient Africa, to which you seem to have clear unbiased perspective towards. I would be happy for you to direct me to any sources of information that would heighten my own understanding. I just recently ordered a book from amazon, the archaeology of Africa food, metals and towns (one world archaeology). I'm honestly trying my best to grasp anthropology and have come across some interesting people with some really deep understandings of anthropology and history, such as yourself. A few years back I came across Dr. Shomarka Keita who raised some interesting points even though most of his studies may be outdated now. Concepts such as convergent evolution (in regards to race is an interesting theory) and understanding the diversity of people allowed me to get my head around the idea of not categorising people into small boxes. I also just have a genuine interest in ancient civilisations from all over the world, but African history has become a personal favourite of mine, just because there is so much to learn and understand which just fascinates me. I also have a keen interest in psychology and sociology which has also directed me to such people as j.krishnamurti and reading, The awakening of intelligence, which till this day I believe is a powerful book. Peace be with you brother, God bless.
Ohhh' that sounds cool. Also thanks man, for the congratulations! Where are you in the US by the way? What's your email address? I can give you my number, when you email me. Just write in the subject line, something of the nature about who you are.
+Fresh Kwame yeah, it's a part of me, a reconstruction of self love, opposed to self hatred as someAfrican Americans have been taught to be ashamed of African dna.
Great video, felt it deep. I , like you, have been amazed at my paper research and all 3 of my DNA test, yes 3. Yoruba, Brong (Ghana), and Bambaran (Mali) are the groups that consistently score high for all of my research, in that order. I get so emotional and excited when I find new connections to things I intuited years before. I have to remember not everyone is happy about me researching, and some are upset because of our European ancestry NOT being Native American lol lol. Nice to see someone as passionate as myself.
This is a very moving video, brother. Dr. Kittles and the staff at African Ancestry have given us the keys to our roots. Every single black family should have people taking this test to not only support the fine work of Dr. Kittles, but to reconnect with our families on the mother continent. When you know those specific links, the study of our history becomes more than an academic or overly emotional exercise. We move away from the general to a very specific study of our families on the other side of the ocean. Those are not historical figures. Those our literarily our people, our relatives. I hope more of us take the test and dive into the cultures of our ancestors and living relatives on the Africsn continent. That is our birthright, and we owe it to our ancestors to reconnect with our cultural heritage. We have no more excuses. Learn the songs, languages, dance, and rich history of your family, good brother. Learn the names of your dieties and remember their names in your prayers. Sorry, but I didn't progress for typos. Great video!
Thank you so much for your comment!!In spite of my profound love for reconnecting to "what I call the psychological and biological prologue existent in Africa prior to our New World experience, I don't think as currently there is an African "particularly" American experience, it is by no mere "mistake." As a patron of world history, and precolonial African history as I look in hindsight I realize as "humanly flawed" as we are now, such was the case with our ancestors, or that of all world ethnicities. As a result, I'm not seeking to resurrect wholly the tapestry of their cultural experiences, seeing that some cultural practices are initiated as they do likewise today with the "wrong" motivation. As a result I embrace their experiences solely through a filtered lens, without attempting to subject it to overt eurocentrism. Otherwise, I'm learning Twi and Yoruba, and as I have for several years continue to be an intense student of precolonial African history.
Such a beautiful man. I too have Africa so dear to me in my heart. I'm from Jamaican parents. I am praying for God to restore Africa and we all rebuild it to make it greater than before. I just know it's going to happen. This video was so touching.
Why,....thank you'uuuu Heavenly Beautiful Black,....that was sooo' kind of you. Yes, the continent will be restored,...every space of the world goes through it's trying time,...as Europe did after the fall of western Roman empire from 476CE to 1000 and once again in the 1300's. It's always helpful to perceive the people or geographic space in context. Interestingly prior the colonialism or post colonialism phase,....several empires and kingdoms in Africa of noteworthy esteem still yet has left several archaeologists & historians "baffled" with the question "how" for some decades now,..."how they did it,"....seeing that the continent pose more environmental challenges than any space on the globe,....only in second comparison to Antartica. Egypt being one of the only few exceptions, seeing that it was blessed with yearly Nile inundation.
Thank you!!!! You know this test focused on two very specific lineages in my family my direct maternal and direct paternal giving me knowledge of the origin of a specific foremother and forefather, but I also did testing with Ancestry DNA(ancestry.com)giving me ethnicity estimates of what’s in my entire genetic make up,...percentage wise, as it has to do with my African genetic make up,...Ghana, Nigeria, and Benin and Togo showed up the highest. What’s great in their database you are able to find dna cousin matches. I found some distant Edo cousins, revealing to me that this is one of the ethnic groups I share ancestry with. I brought this up,...because of your Edo language institute.
Jasmine Clark I'm really glad it touched you, and you found some sense of inspiration in it!!!!! The company African Ancestry from africanancestry.com does the direct lineage dna testing as I did. These lineages are strictly maternal(mother to mother,...all the females a forehand on the lineage beginning with you) and strictly paternal,...and the males on a lineage, beginning with you, but you would have to use your brother, father, paternal uncle or paternal grandfather to have this lineage tested for you,....since they use the y chromosome dna in order to find out where your distant male ancestor originated on that lineage. I'm going to do the even more detailed comprehensive test with ancestry.com soon,.....which gives me a general summary of all the nations that have contributed to my genetic make up. Thanks for commenting!!!
OrientalKings I already ordered my AncestryDNA kit, and have the intention of gifting my family with the African Ancestry results sometime in the next yr. I just need to get my brother to take on the Paternal test as a gift to my father and his family. I truly hope to do a collective family reveal. I already know I will be an emotional mess :). Every since I was the age of 4or 5 I remember having many of the same feelings you had growing up. I went on to marry West African (Togolese) and I often get mistaken for Guinean, Cameroonian, and Kenyan. I have recently spent time in Togo and Benin and the beauty of the culture gave me so much life that I didn't want to come back to the states. When i got back i was so sad I cried for days because I missed "home". Needless to say I am extremely interested in finding out exactly who I am and who I belong to. Many blessings.
+Jasmine Clark Did you order an ancestry dna kit from ancestry.com,...which gives a more so a detailed synopsis of your genetic admixture(which you don't need your paternal relatives) or did you order an ancestry dna kit from AfricanAncestry.com testing one of direct lineages, either maternal or paternal? Although the admixture test is more comprehensive,.....both can be quite impacting(seeing that the direct lineage test renders knowledge of tribal origins,...if African).
OrientalKings I was saying that I placed the order or Ancestry.com's test (AncestryDNA) which gives you a collective synopsis of your complete genetic ancestry. However also plan to also order the AfricanAncestry.com Maternal kit for myself, and the Paternal kit for my brother as a collective gift to my entire family as a synopsis of our ancestry.
Ha!!! You think so, I think I look like I can be from anywhere from Southern or Central Ghana, maybe Southern Togo or Benin, and of course the whole of Southern Nigeria, especially among the Yorubas and Igbos.
+new way Yeah, the company African Ancestry which does the direct lineage dna testing for African Americans finds results from all over West Africa from as northerly as Senegal, Mali, and Niger and as southerly as Angola and Mozambique,....but Nigeria, Cameroon, are ranked in the top two followed closely by Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau.
+new way Even a small percentage of people get results from Madagascar a part from Mozambique, which correlates with the slave trade records, seeing a small portion of the trade concentrated in Southeast Africa. Keenen Ivory Wayans the famous television producer direct paternal ancestry goes back to Madagascar.
I am also Yoruba! I sort of had the same experience. ever since I had become Awaken to African truth and consciousness, I felt such a strong connection to the Yoruba for a couple of years to the point that I was convinced. when I got my results, I FREAKED OUT! IT WAS YORUBA! my ancestors lead me right to them hahahahahah. ASE!
+King Konscious Lol!!! I totally understand the feeling!!!....I totally do. Knowing a forehand, makes you feel your life is loaded with purpose......loaded with purpose...
King Konscious You know what I thought your name sounded familiar, but I checked out your video a couple of months a go. I thought I commented on it,...but I might have intended to do so, but didn't. I could recall your maternal lineage having links to the Yoruba and Fulani people. I am happy to meet you,...egbon mi(my brother). We have much to revel in being Yoruba descendants. Oh yeah,...another ethnic group you might want to connect to are the Edo,....the close kindred and brethren of the Yoruba who created the mighty Benin empire that once flourished in Southern Nigeria.
King Konscious We're basically all of west africa. We're not one specific tribe anymore. We don't need to start dividing ourselves by tribes here in america, it doesn't work out very well for africans
this was a nice story thank you for sharing, Very nice to listen to you. I hope that you get to visit Africa soon. That proverb at the end was amazing... Do you feel that you would also like to do a test to reveal your ethnic percentages by your autosomal DNA as well like through ancestory .com or 23andme .com? :)
+Indigo Blueviolet I'm happy it had meaning to you, and I had something to say worth your time!! Yes I definitely do plan on doing the over all percentage autosomal dna test. Thanks again for listening!!
I honestly thought you were 100% Ghanaian when i clicked on this video.You do look Akan and even Ewe from the Volta region of Ghana. I've met quite a few Yoruba people that i think you look like too. Although my parents are both Ghanaians, i know the people from my ethnic group(Ga-adangme) migrated from Ile Ife in Nigeria. To be honest i wouldn't mind doing one of these tests as they seem interesting.
+Greyceeexo Lol!!! In reference to the 100 per cent Ghanaian,...you did?!! That's interesting because among West Africans, in spite of where they're from I've been told I look Ghanaian above all nationalities from West Africa, more often. I do agree, from my observations of people of Ghana. A part from Akan, you mentioned me resembling the Ewe, I've heard that too. According to geneticists the people that exist in Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and Western Cameroon all represent an interrelated genetic phenotype. Eventually, I am going to take an admixture autosomal dna test, which expounds on percentage wise the countries that contribute to my ethnic make up. In reference to my African ancestry, I wholly believe that the results will state Ghana being the African country contributing the most to my African make up, second to it is Nigeria. I believe it's divine fate my two direct lineages went back to these countries, although that does not represent the largest per cent of ancestral make up. I think I resemble the Akan of Ghana, and the Yoruba and Igbo of Nigeria. The State I'm originally from in the USA received more slaves from Ghana than any other state during the Atlantic Slave Trade. I find this quite interesting, because when I come in contact with Ghanaian people whether they are Fante, Ashanti, Ewe, Ga, etcetera I feel a what I would describe as a......nostalgic connection!!
+OrientalKings Yeah I could've bet my money on you being 100% Ghanaian. I understand that strong nostalgic connection. Although my people came from Ile Ife in Nigeria and are supposed to be Yoruba, I find the Igbo language similar to my present language. Almost every Igbo that I see tell me I look like them and the tonation of the language sounds just like mine.
+Greyceeexo, I am Igbo and both of you look do much like igbo people. We are usually lighter skinned than most other tribes. Also, I know a Ghanaian language sounds like igbo. I do understand some of the words. I can't remember which tribe.
I took my ancestry dna test from ancestry.com. Congrats to you for researching your ancestry, that's a gift you have to carry on your family history. If you haven't written a book in your family history, then you should...
+Nique Starpg Yeah, eventually I tend on doing an admixture test with ancestrydna, from the website ancestry.com also. Good to hear from you!!....thanks for commenting.....
North African Thanks for commenting. I probably have some distant Moroccan Berber Arab ancestry. Most likely I do seeing I have several Fulani dna cousin matches who in Ancestry DNA’s(ancestry.com) all have portions of North African & Middle Eastern dna. It makes sense seeing their origin is a result of Black Senegalese Serer who intermarried with Moroccan Berber Arabs that descended down into Mauritania & Senegal between the 8th and 11th centuries. My paternal aunt has a portion of North African dna. Upon conception each child inherits a random 50 percent of their parents genetic compositions according to geneticists therefore you can share ancestry with peoples, and not carry their dna. Often the evidence of your shared ancestry with these peoples will show up in the dna test results of siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, or great grandparents & so forth. These test results in this video solely represent two distinct lineages in my family, that being the direct maternal & direct paternal. When I tested with Ancestry DNA I discovered I was 85 percent African- 28 percent Ghana, 19 percent Nigeria, 12 percent Benin/Togo, 8 percent Mali, 7 percent Senegal, 4 percent Cameroon/Congo region, 4 percent African Southeastern Bantu, 3 percent African South Central Hunter Gatherers. Then 12 percent European in their updates,...previously it was 13....in the update it is....7 percent British, 3 percent German, 1 percent French, & 1 percent Norwegian And 2 percent Native American I have connected with dna cousin matches from Africa in Ancestry DNA’s database, those in the USA, the Caribbean, & South America(specifically Brazil).
@@GuardianoftheGoldenStool wow, i hope we are related! i'm sure i have some SSA through my father line, my mom looks white(she is morrocan from mountains) but my dad, he gave me his big lips, that's the only SSA i can see on him..:) i just love reading the history of africa, and i've realised north africa and west africa especially mali, senegal were so CONNECTED! so i won't be shock when i do the test
Thank you 😊,....I just how it all interconnects. Ultimately I see it like this,...the social culture, identity or set of experiences of an ethnic people no doubt affect a family, and ultimately the individuals that the family is comprised of. It's all to me an also a past, present, future cause effect cycle. Even genetically it's been proven that our ancestors through their dna past down from things such as their hidden fears(phobias), memory, and portions of their subconscious knowledge. We've all known for some time they pass down their biological conditions.
+King Konscious E ku ori' ire to you also!!!!.....That's funny you say that about my resemblance and him,....Lol!!!... I do resemble Lol!!! some of those Ife bronze statues.
Great video! Seeing your excitement about your results was touching as well as hearing you talk about the deep connection you've always felt. Glad you finally got answers. The African Ancestry test seems very interesting. I am curious as to how they are determining the specific tribes though? As there are so many, how do they link your DNA to a specific one? Also, I could hear your dominant southern accent but in some parts of the video I thought I was hearing an African or maybe Caribbean accent as well in certain words lol..thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!!!!!....and your comments,....glad you share my excitement!!!!........I actually I did two videos concerning ancestry dna testing,....this one,....strictly concerning two specific lineages,...my direct maternal and direct paternal revealing the origin of a foremother and forefather, another video based on my detailed comprehensive admixture with Ancestry DNA(ancestry.com). African Ancestry specialize in mitochondrial dna testing using the mitochondria which mothers passed down to their children for generations, and y dna testing by using the y chromosome which fathers pass down strictly to their male children. They can determine the tribe seeing that each has it's distinct genetic signature which circulates among them. In regard to the accent, I am originally from South Carolina, on the coast and it's coastal plains there is a dialect there called Gullah that developed during the Atlantic Slave Trade related to Bahamian, Jamaican, and Barbadian Creole.
It really made me smile because I ran into your video somehow. I suspect that I am Nigerian mostly and a man once told my father he looked just like his grandfather who was Nigerian and it was scary. I had dreams of a Nigerian Goddess, Oshun when I was younger and Yemaya, too when I prayed and asked for me to be shown where in Africa my ancestors were mostly from. I did the Ancestry DNA test back in December and am currently awaiting the results. I definitely will be doing this test for both my mother and father's side as well!
I'm Yoruba-Nigerian. Congratulations to your results. You do also look Ghanaian. Ghana was my first thought when I first saw your face. Maybe it's your father's side.
Honey Adeniyi Did you listen to the whole video? These lineages mentioned solely represent my direct maternal lineage, a Yoruba foremother, and an Akan forefather on my direct paternal lineage. I have ancestry from several ethnic groups in West and Central Africa, as most black Americans do. Testing with the company Ancestry DNA has been far more rewarding than testing with the company African Ancestry which these results are from in this video. Through Ancestry DNA I have discovered literal distant cousins, dna matches who are also Edo, Igbo, and Hausa-Fulani from Nigeria, Ashanti and Fante from Ghana, Fula(Fulani)from Sierra Leone, Fula(Fulani)from Guinea, Douala from Cameroon, Mandinka from Senegal, Wolof from Senegal, Mandinka from the Gambia, Mbundu and Bakongo from Angola, and Lorma from Liberia.
Well this test only revealed the origin of two very specific ancestors on two very specific lineages, that being the direct maternal and direct paternal,...but I did recently take an admixture test with ancestry.com and 59 percent of my Africab dna comes from between Ghana and Nigeria. 28 percent Ghana, 19 percent Nigeria,..being the second highest,....and 12 percent Benin/Togo. According to geneticists collectively all the peoples existing in the aforementioned spaces represent a group of interrelated phenotypes.
As a White European American. We "Might" be related from the Yoruba people. Ancestry DNA claimed me 1 percent African (Yoruba). My mother and I have slanted eyes. My dad said I have j high cheek bones. As light as you we might you might be related through the European Side
That Yoruba proverb is deep. You had the best Vid on DNA...you gave a lot of context...it was interesting. Congrats. My MITDNA lineage is Mende of Sierra Leone. I have to get a male relative on my father side to do the Y/Paternal to find out my pops lineage. My father died. I want my root...not add mixture DNA.
5:07 It's fine to want to get specific, but I really don't see the point of attaching yourself to one specific african tribe. We are a representation of the whole of west africa at this point. Not just this tribe or that tribe
This dude is CLEARLY Yoruba. I called it EASILY before I saw the video. If he goes to Lagos or Ibadan today, he will see thousands of people with his facial structure. Its so easy to call. I don't have much experience with the Akan so I didn't know about that.
+Khalid Kay Lol!!!.....I get where you're coming from,....totally. There are those that say I look more Akan of Ghana. The peoples that exist in Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and Northern and Western Cameroon are all to be said interrelated phenotypes.
I'd like to do AfricanAncestry sometime but they're just too high for me $300. I am glad that they do transfers, where if you have done a Y-DNA or mtDNA from Family Tree DNA, you can transfer it to them and the price is about $100 less. My maternal grandfather did FTDNA's mtDNAplus and I'll transfer it to AfricanAncestry in the future. I can't deal with his paternal lineage because according to 23andme it's European. Do you plan on doing an autosomal test, such as either 23andme or the popular ancestry.com or both? We've done just about all the major ones except Geno 2.0, though I'm trying to get my granddad to do Tribecode (Not DNA Tribes, but Tribecode from Centrillion Biosciences)
+APgeneticgenealogy lover .......Yeah, I intend on doing the test with ancestry.com,...to hear the break down of my African,...European,...Native American,....etcetera ancestry. I was wondering whether there are companies that do such as what happened with Blair Underwood(On the show ...Who do you think you are) where as the ethnicities were broken down by continent,....and then following that the African tribes were given with the countries, the European ethnicities. When you have a lineage tested with African Ancestry,...let me know the results. In regard to the European lineage, it's a part of you, our African ancestors were flawed humans also, some great, some not,....yet we want knowledge of their background,.....not IDEALIZING it. They were probably those folk if the kingdom which conquered them and sold them did not do it,...would have 100 per cent done if the shoe was on the other foot. Such is the case with your European ancestors,....they are a part of you,....think of it in a non bias way. Yet, I could understand why it's not as exciting finding out, because all our lives we've heard the boast of that,......Africa is the more intriguing,...and EXOTIC!!
+OrientalKings I think I got this right. This is supposed to be a discount on ancestry.com's test for $80 instead of $99 plus shipping. click to order a test. They're going to ask you to put your name email and a password on. When you do that it'll take you to a review order page saying how much the test will be when shipping is added. Now when you get to that, paste this link into your browser search bar (you know that space in the top of the screen with all the numbers and letters) bit.ly/1L9nEm1 The order page should change and you'll see that the price of the test changed from $99 to $69 and with the shipping it'll come to $78.95 (the FREESHIPDNA coupon code doesn't work with it) You don't have to select "submit order" but try it.
Oh!!!!! I'm so tempted to do this!!!! Ah!!!!...but I'm in Shanghai, China now,...been here for a year. I'll be moving back to the USA,...the beginning of December. I intend on doing it when I move back to the USA,.....I would feel funny with all that overseas shipping and time span involved. I rather do it when I come back to the States.
+OrientalKings Hopefully the code will still be good when you get back. I think a faster way to do the code instead of all that copying and pasting is to just click bit.ly/1L9nEm1 from here and it will look just like the page where you'd fill out your name, email and create a password but it isn't. You'd enter the information on it and then you'll see that the price is $30 off. Don't know how long it'll last but hopefully it'll still be around for a few more months.
+OrientalKings Sorry I forgot to say that a few days ago, the code was disabled. Richard Hill of www.dna-testing-adviser.com/dna-testing-blog.html did say "No expiration date is visible; but I expect it will go away at any time. " There is still the freeshipping coupon, *FREESHIPDNA*
+Yolanda Flowers Thank you Yolanda!!! I'm so happy to be a direct descendant through maternal and paternal lines, of these two renown traditions,....the Yoruba of Nigeria, the Akan(Ashanti) of Ghana,......so distinctly renown in their histories and reputation,.............that when African Americans go on that.........Afrocentric route they often cling to these two traditions...........just happy!!!!!!!.....yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Growing up African-American, hearing the sounds of black Africa, seeing the faces of black Africa, whether it be through various forms of the creative arts, you can intuitively sense your connection to the continent. When you can identify to pin point what portions of the continent, it makes the whole ordeal a lot more special. It's like putting a name to an unidentified face to some degree. These dna test results I mentioned only represented two distinct lineages in my family. I look forward to taking the more detailed comprehensive admixture test, breaking down my entire African percentile, and of course European, and possibly Native American. Yet in spite, the ones I mentioned were solely two distinct lineages, they were special, because they represent the ethnic genes of a specific foremother and forefather who suffer a board the Middle Passage whose legacies weren't forgotten.
OrientalKings I have this crazy idea where I think the AU (African Union) should consider granting citizenship to blacks of the diaspora who can trace their roots to specific tribes, and possess significant dna with those tribes. I have a lot to share about black African history, facts, UA-cam links, blogs, and books. If you are interested please let me know and we can exchange emails/ social media. It's my passion to educate black people (African or American) of our history and our truth. Please check out youtuber "home team history" you will be very impressed with what he has to say
+Roni Yeah, I'm equally a patron of African history, especially precolonial African history. I actually have a facebook page dedicated to it. I don't know if you've come across it. It has a photo of Amenhotep the Egyptian Pharaoh as the profile pic, and an Ndebele woman in traditional garb in front of their traditionally colorful geometrical patterned home as the cover photo. Have you come across a page as the one I described? I'm also familiar with "home team history's videos."
OrientalKings no I have not. I just tried looking it up under oriental kings but I could not find it. What is the page called, Would love to exchange knowledge with you
You are a good visionary guy only few people can listen to their instincts and guess who they are congratulations to you welcome to the ancestral land its beautiful vibrant and colorful great to have you among us and when you visit don't forget to visit Liberia because that's where the freed slaves were dump, welcome home Bro we love you
I always found it interesting that God “allowed” African people to come to the “best”, “free-est”, and most prosperous country on Earth, via literal slavery, and through under the most extreme abuse and exploitation. You wonder why. But I can’t help but also wonder if a lot of black Americans might now, having found their roots, take their education, wealth and knowledge back to their mother countries to make them more educated, wealthy, and prosperous. Wouldn’t that be crazy?
Dana Kilgore Yes, cedrick.white,...you can use to find me on instagram. Why do you think it won’t be African? It’s just your direct maternal lineage,...your mother’s mother’s mother’s lineage etcetera unto a foremother of specific origin.
@@GuardianoftheGoldenStool My mother's line comes out of Spartanburg SC. My grand mother was of very fair complexion. Her mother was of extremely fair complexion like white. A lot of mixing. I'm very nervous.
+F Leon Where is that 20 per cent Africa from? Of course like the USA, Puerto Rico received African slaves from all over West Africa, and likewise small portions from Southeast Africa. I'm aware my maternal kinfolk the Yoruba of Nigeria were prevalent in that slave population.
Welcome to the clan bro. DNA don't lie, now I know. I drew my conclusion before you said it. By the way, the Fon people had been subject to the Yoruba for a long time until the famous Oyo empire fell to incursion from the north. The Fon and other ethnic groups whom they have exacted tributes from sold them into slavery. That's why a larger percentage of slaves of Yoruba extraction arrove in the Americas right before slave trade was abolished. As for the Ashanti people, I can tell you a thing or two also. An average Ashanti person is polite, bold, eloquent, and religious. Attending church in Ghana I saw their level of commitment and enthusiasm and they pretty much come close to the Yoruba people on that count, An average Yoruba man is diplomatic, sagacious, intelligent, and religious. So you can merge those qualities if you like.
+akinwale Alexander Yeah, I'm well aware of the history between the Yoruba and the Fon,...the Fon's Dahomey kingdom. I've also heard various stereotypes of the Yoruba and the Ashanti as you have mentioned. I'm actually going to take an admixture test quite soon, to find out in summary percentage wise of what nations flow a midst my veins in totality. In respect to that portion of my dna that comes from Africa, I believe percentage wise the greatest amount of my ancestors came from Ghana. It's quite possible, witnessing the admixture tests of other African Americans who have the largest of their percentages coming from Nigeria or Cameroon, specifically.
+OrientalKings Yeah, you do have the greatest amount of Akan in you. That I can assure you of. I had a lecturer in my university days in Accra who looked and talked almost like you. I mean the resemblance is so significant that one can mistake both of you as siblings. That was the reason I said DNA don't lie.
akinwale Alexander Yes, I agree with you even upon hearing the Fante and Twi languages something jumps within my belly or people who have an accent curtailed by these tongues. It's as if my spirit has an instant recollection, based on a buried memory within my soul. This is what assured me before I took the dna test that I must of had a direct Akan ancestor, and of course many more. By the way, what origin are you,...noticing your Yoruba name?
Your guess is right bro. But I had my tertiary education in Ghana. It was during that period that I immersed myself in the culture. I picked up a little Twi and Ga along the way.
He looks very nigerian before he even spoke. I was waiting on the accent lol. Just because others try to erase who you are - they can't - it remains within
+Jennifer Lee Hahaha.....Maybe Carribean mixed with African American slung. Sounds like an African who's trying African American slung. I'd rather stick to my African dialect.
+Gibbs Jakatiga Dude,....what's up with you?!!! Ha?!!! What profit would I get from that?!!! If you would listen to the video carefully, you would know I have roots on the coastal plains of South Carolina, effected by Gullah creole originating on the coast. Yet, in this video the accent is not even prevalent in my speech.
Congrats:) on your results. I recently received my African ancestry results and I am very disappointed. It says I'm European but it does not give me the origin. On the similarity sequence paper, there's suppose to be bolded letters indicating what I share with the Europeans but there is none. I don't think African Ancestry is accurate at all.
+samanthadwight1 That is only one particular direct lineage in your family. You have multiple other ones, just that one distinctly is European. It should at least indicate some countries, that's weird.......
Wow,....that's funny,....really!!? I met a guy from Osun state before, he had such an awe striking kindred spirit, there was something in his voice!!!!....that was so utterly familiar to me, like a relative of mine, and equally his appearance.
this brother looks like my brothers step son.. He from Cameroon.. but his mama is mixed.. interesting.. he kinda sound like he got an accent or something.. not hating though..
you're Ghanaian,its not very hard to tell.I almost didn't watch your video b'cos i thought you were a Ghanaian clowning about the ancetry DNA thing :) Your accent is unmistakenly Akan :)
+OrientalKings, I knew you from growing up in the eastern part of Nigeria and they look like igbo's too. I meant that you remind me of relatives and people I grew up with. I initially thought you were joking with all the discussions. One thing is that West Africans are the same because you look like the igbo people of eastern nigeria.
+Omalicha There are some commonalities between West Africans, but there are enough noticeable differences too, to be able to often to denote what area in West Africa a person is from and at times even the country and ethnic group. Believe me, I've done it, and seen other West Africans do it. According to geneticists, West Africa is divided between interrelated genetic phenotypes. For example the people between Ghana and the countries in between to Western Cameroon represent this sort of linked together interrelated phenotype. I could see why you say I resemble the Igbo. I think a large portion of my West African dna originates from the Akan people of Ghana and the Yoruba and Igbo of Nigeria. In Ghana possibly also the Ga. I've been around Igbos they do personally have a familiar feeling to me.
The Akan people of Ghana are not Hebrews. Twi is NOT an Afro-Asiatic language. It’s a Kwa Niger-Congo tongue. Not only this, the Ancient Hebrews were not black, Jeremiah 13:23 even proves this when the prophet uses the ancient Ethiopians(Cushites, Sudanese) in his analysis of speaking of a people so pigmented enough they could not change their skin color, mindful he didn’t choose his own folk to make this analysis, but black Africans. Also in Lamentations 4 the Hebrews are complaining about how dark their skin has become due to harsh enslavement and famine as it was not the norm. Their norm in this chapter is mentioned as being a range from reddish brown to white skin. Even the Shulamite in Song of Solomon 1 spoke of her dark skin as being an oddity due to working in the vineyards, high exposure to the sun. Also in Matthew 26:6-13 Mary Magdalene wiped Jesus’s feet with her hair. You can only do that with long straight or wavy hair as if it was a hanging towel, not afro-textured kinky hair. You would almost have to do a head stand to wipe someone’s feet with afro-textured kinky hair lol.
@@GuardianoftheGoldenStool, the minute that you said thst the ancient Hebrews were not black, you were in error. Moses was thought of to be an African (Egyptian). Joseph's brothers thought that he was an Egyptian when they came down from Yeshar'el to buy grain. With all due respect, you don't know what you're talking about . The ancient Hebrews were and still are black.
Chosen One Since when did African equate with black????? North Africa has had brown caucasoid Middle Eastern phenotypes since the Stone Age. Here is the proof at the oldest uncovered cemetery site in the world in Morocco(Northwest Africa). www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/oldest-dna-africa-offers-clues-mysterious-ancient-culture Africa was NEVER one race just as Asia was never one race, even now archaeologists have found small portions of Australoid dna in Native Americans of Mexico, Central, and South America a midst their predominantly Mongoloid genes. Therefore one can conclude not even the Americas have ever been solely one race. Also why did you openly ignore all the proof I gave you of the Ancient Hebrews not being black??? Why??? Are you racist???
@A B Brilliant history lesson! Undisputed! I am Yoruba as well and that's our oral history passed down from time. We migrated from the middle east and settled in West Africa.
A B You’re desperate and brainwashed. The ONLY reason you can read the bible is because of your COLONIZERS. Who needs the literacy of some other people to find out who they are from a book???? Sounds like an infantile dependent mind,...a child, a pure non stop laughing joke! Lamentations 4:7 states,.... Their princes were brighter than snow and whiter than milk, their bodies more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like lapis lazuli. Doesn’t sound like black people to me. Mary Magdalene wiped the feet of Jesus with her hair. Your hair has to be long and towel like to perform such a task in John 12:3
I'm sure I probably have some Igbo ancestry on other lineages in my family, a part from the direct maternal and direct paternal mentioned in the video. I am confident it's probably the case,....when I come in contact with the Igbo I feel a close affinity, and any measure of Igbo ancestry would be only complementary or enhancing of the Yoruba and the Akan(Ashanti) I mentioned on the video seeing that I read the Yoruba, Akan, Igbo, and Ga-Adangme are genetically quite closely related.
Also, I will add, that not only I read that genetically the Yoruba, Igbo, Akan, and Ga-Adangme are quite closely related, but in dna the Igbos closest kinsmen are the Yoruba.
@@GuardianoftheGoldenStool what is said is what I meant am Nigerian and am telling you that 99% of Yoruba people have problem with some Certain pronunciation. Am not saying it to be insultive I like em and they are good people I only said it so if you do then it will be a confirmation for you. Look it up if your taking it personal ... thanks
+Emanuel For Africa I’m not taking it personal or anything but I just didn’t understand your grammar. The Yoruba are one of the many African ethnic groups in my gene pool. Their dna just happens to be passed down via my direct maternal lineage by a foremother by way of my mitochondria. If my appearance is representative of them it’s due to having so much dna from ethnic groups from between southern Ghana and southern Nigeria. Those being which I discovered from Ancestry DNA cousin matches opposed to African Ancestry direct lineage testing, the Edo, Igbo, and Fulani of Nigeria(northern group), the Ashanti, Fante, and Ga of Ghana, and the Ewe of Togo.
I thought you were a hebrew israelite and didn't believe in the white man's science.I go on your videos all the time.I'm surprised to see you on a african ancestry video.I would love to see you making more videos.
I've watched about 50 of these videos but for some reason this one got me a bit emotional. Great results brotha. I listened to the whole thing. My Grandfather was a Gullah from NC. I can't wait to do this too!
Really!!...I'm more than glad it touched you!!! Great to meet you!!! It's impacting in a mentally revolutionary way,....when all of your life,....you thought you would never know anything about the bulk of your identity,...when it doesn't fit in wholly with the mainstream representation of a society,.......and all of a sudden .....YOU DO!!!! It's kind of impacting in a predestined kind of way,....when you were asking those questions,.....but there are REALLY hinting signposts along the way,......that show you the way. It's still shakes me, knowing that for my direct maternal lineage,.....African Ancestry(the company) did the analysis on my birthday,......not knowing when it was,.....and the ancestry certificate has the date on it. I always say,....it must have been like a rebirth for me. On the other hand I really do believe a great deal of the problems we deal with in Afro-America, is that we don't know who we are. The latest memory most of have of our beginnings,........is one rising up from the shambles of slavery,.....a history we didn't create,...but one we were constantly reacting to whether passively or non compromisingly. I don't think we'll recover by becoming bitter afro-centrics, but by discovering who we are in an African context,.....understanding the history of Africa or as I like to say the in depth story of Africa, and coming to know the substance of ourselves in our OWN CONTEXT,.....that is the story of Africa before the Atlantic Slave Trade and the colonial era. I'm going to take the admixture test soon,.....my guess is my highest African percentage will come out of Ghana/Ivory Coast.
Wow WELL DONE
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"However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source." - Such a beautiful proverb. Very fitting to your story too. Thanks for sharing.
+Elsbeth Mareile Yes!!! Without biases or distorted impressions we've picked up along the way for whatever reason,.......there is something subtle with us,...that always resonates the truth. It's affirming and solidifying making us know the Creator is near. There are times our fear cause us to lose sight.....of an echoed truth. Regardless,....bam!!!!!!.......If we really want to know it,......It always finds a way to smack us back in the face. Thanks again!!! for your comment
I am of the Temne and all I know is I love my people wherever we are and wherever we are from in Africa. My family. I really enjoy hearing us experience this amazing awakening of who we really are. I find that many of our stories are so similar. It is as if our African hearts are upon the same spiritual path. That is special. I can feel it each time I listen to us speak out story. I can listen to our stories being told all day long. We are a people of the greatest stories on earth. Our story has never ended. We are but entering a new chapter. One of hope and fulfillment. May our Ancestor of Ancestors keep is in mercy. Ameen.
The temne is one of the largest tribes in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱💪🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This is so beautiful. I was so intrigued listening to your story. You have such a beautiful spirit. The moment I clicked on your video I could tell you have Ghanaian blood. Even your mannerism are practically the same. I am 100% Senegambian from Ancestry, and Seereer patrilineally and matrilineally from African Ancestry. I am a pure Seereer - no surprise there. I belong to the Seereer patriclan Joof, and the Seereer matriclan Taa'boor. The motto of my patrlineage is "The secret to success is the willingness to serve without aspiring for rewards." The motto of our matriclan is "We control the element of fire!" The giraffe and antelope are are the totems ("tiim" in Seereer) of our patrilineage. Fire is the totem our our matriclan. I adhere to the tenets of A fat Roog (Seereer spirituality) just like my ancestors before me. It was your ancestors who were speaking to you from beyond the grave, guiding you in your journey so you can know yourself. For if you really want to know, and ask, they will guide you. Never doubt your intuition, for they are always with you. They will come when you call. You have the gift whether you know it or not. You just have to perfect it. Good luck with your journey. You have a greater purpose, something beyond materialism.
Love your vid... you are very passionate, and it is refreshing to witness. Good skills!
+Deb Smith Hey Deb!!! Thanks!!! that was really kind of you,......In speech, my ultimate aim is connect sincerely, and my only part is to exude what is at my inner core,........if I want the connections I've made to be authentic!!!......You feel me?......
I am so pleased with your results and the joy it brought you.my plans are to take my DNA.I cannot wait,my mother was from Jamaica and I see so much similarities with Nigerian and Ghanaian people.
Lots of love brother from a Yoruba man from Nigeria ❤. This video brought tears to my eyes 🥹
I'm happy for you, your Ancestors are speaking loud and clear and you are smart enough to listen.
@Sabledoux Thank you!!!!
this video made my day its so refreshing to see someone so passionate about their lineage. I am a Ghanaian woman living in the uk.I want to do a test to see if I have any other tribes in my blood because I think it would be very interesting because from what I know everyone in my family have been Ghanaian no where else.and by the way do you know your akan name? and also are you planning to visit Ghana anytime soon I think it would be a very beautiful and almost healing experience for you.have a nice day me nua .
+roxy amel I'm glad it brought you such a sense of revitalization. Your words mean much to me! Yes, I intend on visiting Ghana some day, definitely! A part from knowing my direct paternal lineage goes back there, and multiple other lineages; the experience I had with the Fante (Akan) cab driver in the video made me to know that my connection to the land is profound. If you are speaking of my Akan day name, it is Kwaku. What made you ask?
This is my first time listening to your video, although, I have seen it in passing...one word I can say after listening, PROFOUND...thanks for sharing I descend from Bono Akan according to AA paternal side and Bamileke maternal side....and my great grand parents both were gullah, Berkeley,sc..Nyame nkwa wo ho, god be with you bro
Thank you for sharing! My results; 95% Africa (26% Mali and 24% Nigeria highest)
Yeah, the test I did had solely to do with my direct maternal(mother to mother to mother etcetera to unto the foremother that passed down the dna)lineage and direct paternal which focus on the male line just simply opposite of the maternal. The advantage of this if you test with African Ancestry(africanancestry.com), if your ancestor on either of those lineage is African they can reveal to you the tribe that individual came from, and the country. The admixture test in which you did is advantageous due to the factor it can give you a comprehensive summary of your entire genetic make up.
Gwendolyn Simmins that’s very high Malian! The higher I have seen so far (I am 20%) but I am
Native to the Dominican Republic.
Awesome story and congratulations 💕 .Have you been able to make connections with anyone or visited yet ?
Bro, before video began, I thought u were a Ghanaian from your looks alone. Nice video. I was captivated from beginning to end! Thanks for sharing.
I'm definitely glad you connected with the heart of where I was coming from!!
Could you tell me from which part of Africa I resemblance more?
This is a very BEAUTIFUL video brother! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Now... I think the challenge will be before too long is finding out the very very very "ancient" name of our people.
+Pryncess Frazier I'm glad you felt a sense of substance in it, and connected with what it was.....just ultimately about!!!!
Your excitement is captivating, chai!
I like your energy, It's very refreshing. I like seeing my African American brothers and sisters embracing their culture. Hello my Yoruba brother!!
Mo kiyin!!....Thanks man!!!....That dna test kind of served as a predictive precursor of what my heart always sort of resonated, seeing that it focused on two direct lineages, my direct maternal, & direct paternal. Direct maternal being my mother's mother's mother's lineage....the line of females,....unto the Yoruba foremother that endured the Middle Passage,...while direct paternal being the exact opposite leading to an Akan(Ashanti) forefather from Ghana. I say precursor,...seeing that I always believed the bulk of my African ancestry came from between Ghana & Nigeria. Recently, I took an admixture test & discovered 59 per cent of my ancestry originates from between Ghana & Nigeria. 28 per cent Ghana 19 per cent Nigeria, 12 per cent Benin/Togo,.....there are other places represented in much smaller percentages 8 & lower,.....but yeah the bulk of my ancestry exist between Ghana & Nigeria,...at least the African component.
Wahab Odusola What are you doing here?lmao
This has to be one of my favourite videos. I have watched so many but i just felt soo connected to this wow. Bloodlines are strong. Congrats
Aaaaawwwwwww’ thanks!!!! That was so kind of you. Yeah, it’s interesting because in the sovereign scheme of things, in a divine sense, it’s almost interesting. It seems like my ancestors knew I would ask these questions. After discovering that the test indicated particularly the origin of a single foremother on your direct maternal,..maternal grandmother’s lineage, and single forefather on your direct paternal,....paternal grandfather’s lineage it made it all the more special, like pin pointing two needles in a hay stack with my intuitive guesses. I did the admixture test two My three highest African percentages from greatest to least were Ghana, Nigeria, & Benin/Togo which made the direct lineage tests I spoke of almost feel like wonderful precursors. Following those three from greatest to least were Mali, Senegal, Cameroon/Congo, Africa Southeastern Bantu, Africa South Central Hunter Gatherers. Over all I was 85 percent African, & then 13 percent European & 2 percent Native American.
Here are my admixture dna test results in detail from Ancestry DNA(ancestry.com).
85 percent African
28 percent Ghana/Ivory Coast
19 percent Nigeria
12 percent Benin/Togo
8 percent Mali
7 percent Senegal
4 percent Cameroon/Congo
4 percent Africa Southeastern Bantu
3 percent Africa South Central Hunter Gatherers
13 percent European
8 percent Great Britain
3 percent Ireland
1 percent Spain/Portugal
>1 percent Scandinavia
>1 percent Europe West(Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands,etc)
2 percent Native American
(Wegene identifies it as Mayan, which specializes in East Asian & Native American dna, no surprise seeing more than one Southeastern US Native American has been found to have Mayan dna, especially the Muskogean groups & select subgroups of the Cherokees)
I'm not even African American ,but your video made me cry .Congratulations on finding out about your ancestry. Its beautiful to see how attached you are to your roots! I am Cameroonian(right next to Nigeria!) from the Barmileke tribe by the way. I'm so happy for you ! you should vissit Nigeria sometime 😊😊God bless
Thank you so much for your encouraging and kind words, they're so dear to me. They're a lot African Americans through the same genetic dna testing I've participated in have found out they're descended from the Bamileke of Cameroon.
+OrientalKings you're welcome😊 and thank you for the response .Yeah I found out that Oprah ,Erika Badu and Serena Williams defended from my tribe .Have a great day😊
+Krystie Dibeton Are you sure that Serena Williams found out she had ancestry among the Bamileke? I don't see that information anywhere on the internet.
+OrientalKings I think you're right I looked it up,sorry for unintentionally misleading you.
+Krystie Dibeton No problem
Greetings to you from the UK 🇬🇧 watching your video really touched my heart I was sooo happy for your DNA results.. I am waiting to get mine hopefully not to long await till I'll get them my parents are from the Caribbean Mum from Jamaica & Dad from st Vincent & the Grenadines I can't wait thank you for sharing your journey & results Gods love & blessings to you 🙌
Thanks for your kind words,....that was sooo' dear of you. The results on this test reveal distinctly,...the origin of two ancestors,....one of my direct maternal lineage,...a foremother,....& one of my direct paternal lineage,....a forefather. Yet what is so great I've always believed the bulk of my African ancestry existed between the shared history, interrelated peoples between the countries of Ghana & Nigeria (Benin,..Togo sandwiched in the middle),...& it does. I also did an admixture test with ancestry.com & found out 59 per cent of my ancestry originated between Ghana & Nigeria,...Ghana/Ivory Coast 28 per cent,....19 per cent Nigeria,...12 per cent Benin/Togo. It was almost like my direct lineage testing I spoke of on this video was like a precursor to the admixture one. I talk more about the results on a video I did also on my channel called Ancestry DNA Results(Confirmation). I also have African origins in other places in lower percentages,...some European, & Native American.
OrientalKings. Thank you for your quick reply 😊 I've done mine via ancestry. Com then hopefully once I've got the funds I'd love to do the African ancestry test. I'd need to find out if I can send of for the test from the UK & how long it would take?
In my younger years lol I was drawn to the Ghanaian culture I joined an African dance group that did mainly traditional Ghanaian dances I've decided once I know what my high percentage of my African ancestry is I will learn the language! I've been seeing a lot of you tube videos of many African Americans, Caribbeans black British moving to Africa especially Ghana this also warms my heart as they all say they feel they are home beautiful!!
If it's ok with you ill let you know my results
God bless
OrientalKings Hi just to share with you I got my Ancestry DNA results it says I am 97% African I'm 64% Nigerian 18% Ivory Coast/Ghana. 4% Cameroon/Congo. 3% Africa SE bantu regions. 3% Mali. 2% Africa south central Hunter gatherers. 2% Benin/Togo. 1% Senegal. 3% Italian/Greek. Now I want to find out what Nigerian Tribe im from 🇳🇬 I'm feeling blessed. ☺🙌
Take care & God bless
+M Henry UK More than likely seeing that 64 per cent of your ancestry comes from Nigeria,...you are connected to several Nigerian ethnic groups. Ethnic groups from Nigeria upon the direct maternal and paternal lineages of black Americans and West Indians are the Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Edo, and Kanuri.
OrientalKings Good day thanks again for your reply & information. I have contacted Ancestry DNA UK & they have no further test that I could do as to Trace my Nigerian ethnic group will have to contact African ancestry for more information
Im so looking forward to this new journey of who I am & hoping to learn one of the Nigerian languages
Thank you again
Take care & much blessings.
Wow! Welcome to NIGERIA ... My brother from another mother in far away USA. You're now baptised as Omo Naija now.
I like the way you told us your story. Congratulations with the results.
Ingrid Jonkers Thank you’uuu!!
Thank you for posting such a wonderful video! I was researching the different ancestry tracing kits available to get for my bf and I'm going to get this one for sure.
Thanks for your kind words!!!
No matter how far a streams flow, it never forgets its source.. Congratulations job well done.. I must do this test next
Thanks Ito Roots,.....you should!!! I want to do the admixture test next from Ancestrydna.
I admire your approach to the use of knowledge that you are clearly in abundance of when it comes to anthropology and history. I thought I'd rather comment on your page to which I subscribed to and congratulations to rediscovering your ancestral heritage, I'm genuinely happy for you. I unfortunately don't have a facebook page anymore but me and a few friends was looking to start a blog page devoted to the same topics to which we was discussing. I actually believe I could learn a lot from your understanding and knowledge of ancient Africa, to which you seem to have clear unbiased perspective towards.
I would be happy for you to direct me to any sources of information that would heighten my own understanding. I just recently ordered a book from amazon, the archaeology of Africa food, metals and towns (one world archaeology).
I'm honestly trying my best to grasp anthropology and have come across some interesting people with some really deep understandings of anthropology and history, such as yourself. A few years back I came across Dr. Shomarka Keita who raised some interesting points even though most of his studies may be outdated now. Concepts such as convergent evolution (in regards to race is an interesting theory) and understanding the diversity of people allowed me to get my head around the idea of not categorising people into small boxes. I also just have a genuine interest in ancient civilisations from all over the world, but African history has become a personal favourite of mine, just because there is so much to learn and understand which just fascinates me. I also have a keen interest in psychology and sociology which has also directed me to such people as j.krishnamurti and reading, The awakening of intelligence, which till this day I believe is a powerful book.
Peace be with you brother, God bless.
Ohhh' that sounds cool. Also thanks man, for the congratulations! Where are you in the US by the way? What's your email address? I can give you my number, when you email me. Just write in the subject line, something of the nature about who you are.
+Nsc873 Gamer Got it, talk to you soon
Congrats once again! Have you ever received you ancestry dna updates ? If so If you don't mind what were your most recent updates like?
Wow he loves Africa, much love bro
+Fresh Kwame yeah, it's a part of me, a reconstruction of self love, opposed to self hatred as someAfrican Americans have been taught to be ashamed of African dna.
@@GuardianoftheGoldenStool indeed!
Great story! I am amazed that you were able to pinpoint your origins on both sides of the family.
Welcome home. I was born in the UK to an Akan mother and Yoruba dad. much love
+AKAN TRIBESMAN Thank you for your great welcome,.....the Akwaaba and the Ek'aabo!!! Thanks once gain!!
Alaba echi-rungi, achi-nyumako! : a Luganda proveb meaning (One who sees a good thing, speaks about it!) what a touching story.Great Video Mr. White.
What language is that?
luganda from Buganda tribe in uganda
Ellema Baba ok thanks. Asante kaka
Great video, felt it deep. I , like you, have been amazed at my paper research and all 3 of my DNA test, yes 3.
Yoruba, Brong (Ghana), and Bambaran (Mali) are the groups that consistently score high for all of my research, in that order.
I get so emotional and excited when I find new connections to things I intuited years before. I have to remember not everyone is happy about me researching, and some are upset because of our European ancestry NOT being Native American lol lol.
Nice to see someone as passionate as myself.
This is a very moving video, brother. Dr. Kittles and the staff at African Ancestry have given us the keys to our roots. Every single black family should have people taking this test to not only support the fine work of Dr. Kittles, but to reconnect with our families on the mother continent. When you know those specific links, the study of our history becomes more than an academic or overly emotional exercise. We move away from the general to a very specific study of our families on the other side of the ocean. Those are not historical figures. Those our literarily our people, our relatives. I hope more of us take the test and dive into the cultures of our ancestors and living relatives on the Africsn continent. That is our birthright, and we owe it to our ancestors to reconnect with our cultural heritage. We have no more excuses. Learn the songs, languages, dance, and rich history of your family, good brother. Learn the names of your dieties and remember their names in your prayers.
Sorry, but I didn't progress for typos. Great video!
Thank you so much for your comment!!In spite of my profound love for reconnecting to "what I call the psychological and biological prologue existent in Africa prior to our New World experience, I don't think as currently there is an African "particularly" American experience, it is by no mere "mistake." As a patron of world history, and precolonial African history as I look in hindsight I realize as "humanly flawed" as we are now, such was the case with our ancestors, or that of all world ethnicities. As a result, I'm not seeking to resurrect wholly the tapestry of their cultural experiences, seeing that some cultural practices are initiated as they do likewise today with the "wrong" motivation. As a result I embrace their experiences solely through a filtered lens, without attempting to subject it to overt eurocentrism. Otherwise, I'm learning Twi and Yoruba, and as I have for several years continue to be an intense student of precolonial African history.
Such a beautiful man. I too have Africa so dear to me in my heart. I'm from Jamaican parents. I am praying for God to restore Africa and we all rebuild it to make it greater than before. I just know it's going to happen. This video was so touching.
Why,....thank you'uuuu Heavenly Beautiful Black,....that was sooo' kind of you. Yes, the continent will be restored,...every space of the world goes through it's trying time,...as Europe did after the fall of western Roman empire from 476CE to 1000 and once again in the 1300's. It's always helpful to perceive the people or geographic space in context. Interestingly prior the colonialism or post colonialism phase,....several empires and kingdoms in Africa of noteworthy esteem still yet has left several archaeologists & historians "baffled" with the question "how" for some decades now,..."how they did it,"....seeing that the continent pose more environmental challenges than any space on the globe,....only in second comparison to Antartica. Egypt being one of the only few exceptions, seeing that it was blessed with yearly Nile inundation.
oh that thouched my heart we love you back brother love from your somali sister
I'm happy for you, bro! With passion and dedication you can always achieve everything.
Thank you!!!! You know this test focused on two very specific lineages in my family my direct maternal and direct paternal giving me knowledge of the origin of a specific foremother and forefather, but I also did testing with Ancestry DNA(ancestry.com)giving me ethnicity estimates of what’s in my entire genetic make up,...percentage wise, as it has to do with my African genetic make up,...Ghana, Nigeria, and Benin and Togo showed up the highest. What’s great in their database you are able to find dna cousin matches. I found some distant Edo cousins, revealing to me that this is one of the ethnic groups I share ancestry with. I brought this up,...because of your Edo language institute.
I love this video congrats bro.
Merci pour les compliments!!!
Je suis heureux que tu as aimé !
De rien mon frère.
Excellent story! will you make time to visit your source ?
Wow, this made me very Emotional. I can only imagine what your initial reaction was. I can't Wait to do this.
Jasmine Clark I'm really glad it touched you, and you found some sense of inspiration in it!!!!! The company African Ancestry from africanancestry.com does the direct lineage dna testing as I did. These lineages are strictly maternal(mother to mother,...all the females a forehand on the lineage beginning with you) and strictly paternal,...and the males on a lineage, beginning with you, but you would have to use your brother, father, paternal uncle or paternal grandfather to have this lineage tested for you,....since they use the y chromosome dna in order to find out where your distant male ancestor originated on that lineage. I'm going to do the even more detailed comprehensive test with ancestry.com soon,.....which gives me a general summary of all the nations that have contributed to my genetic make up. Thanks for commenting!!!
OrientalKings I already ordered my AncestryDNA kit, and have the intention of gifting my family with the African Ancestry results sometime in the next yr. I just need to get my brother to take on the Paternal test as a gift to my father and his family. I truly hope to do a collective family reveal. I already know I will be an emotional mess :).
Every since I was the age of 4or 5 I remember having many of the same feelings you had growing up. I went on to marry West African (Togolese) and I often get mistaken for Guinean, Cameroonian, and Kenyan.
I have recently spent time in Togo and Benin and the beauty of the culture gave me so much life that I didn't want to come back to the states. When i got back i was so sad I cried for days because I missed "home".
Needless to say I am extremely interested in finding out exactly who I am and who I belong to.
Many blessings.
+Jasmine Clark Did you order an ancestry dna kit from ancestry.com,...which gives a more so a detailed synopsis of your genetic admixture(which you don't need your paternal relatives) or did you order an ancestry dna kit from AfricanAncestry.com testing one of direct lineages, either maternal or paternal? Although the admixture test is more comprehensive,.....both can be quite impacting(seeing that the direct lineage test renders knowledge of tribal origins,...if African).
OrientalKings I was saying that I placed the order or Ancestry.com's test (AncestryDNA) which gives you a collective synopsis of your complete genetic ancestry. However also plan to also order the AfricanAncestry.com Maternal kit for myself, and the Paternal kit for my brother as a collective gift to my entire family as a synopsis of our ancestry.
+Jasmine Clark Great!! 🙂 Would love hear about your results when you get them.
you are so amazing..thank youmy Ashanti Brother
Thank you!! ❤️😊
Welcome home bro.im from Ghana.
Medaase!!....me nua
Wow u can write in twi now that's really cool. Keep it up proud of u
You look straight up Nigerian son.
Ha!!! You think so, I think I look like I can be from anywhere from Southern or Central Ghana, maybe Southern Togo or Benin, and of course the whole of Southern Nigeria, especially among the Yorubas and Igbos.
OrientalKings Dude...you look so Nigerian....Yoruba, it ain't funny.
Tell me about it! That Nigerian blood run deep.
+new way Yeah, the company African Ancestry which does the direct lineage dna testing for African Americans finds results from all over West Africa from as northerly as Senegal, Mali, and Niger and as southerly as Angola and Mozambique,....but Nigeria, Cameroon, are ranked in the top two followed closely by Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau.
+new way Even a small percentage of people get results from Madagascar a part from Mozambique, which correlates with the slave trade records, seeing a small portion of the trade concentrated in Southeast Africa. Keenen Ivory Wayans the famous television producer direct paternal ancestry goes back to Madagascar.
You are a bright brother and I mean that in a godly way
I am also Yoruba! I sort of had the same experience. ever since I had become Awaken to African truth and consciousness, I felt such a strong connection to the Yoruba for a couple of years to the point that I was convinced. when I got my results, I FREAKED OUT! IT WAS YORUBA! my ancestors lead me right to them hahahahahah. ASE!
+King Konscious Lol!!! I totally understand the feeling!!!....I totally do. Knowing a forehand, makes you feel your life is loaded with purpose......loaded with purpose...
OrientalKings check out my video as well!
King Konscious You know what I thought your name sounded familiar, but I checked out your video a couple of months a go. I thought I commented on it,...but I might have intended to do so, but didn't. I could recall your maternal lineage having links to the Yoruba and Fulani people. I am happy to meet you,...egbon mi(my brother). We have much to revel in being Yoruba descendants. Oh yeah,...another ethnic group you might want to connect to are the Edo,....the close kindred and brethren of the Yoruba who created the mighty Benin empire that once flourished in Southern Nigeria.
King Konscious
We're basically all of west africa. We're not one specific tribe anymore. We don't need to start dividing ourselves by tribes here in america, it doesn't work out very well for africans
My brother you should keep your channel going coz you have a real talent. Do try and come back.
this was a nice story thank you for sharing, Very nice to listen to you. I hope that you get to visit Africa soon.
That proverb at the end was amazing...
Do you feel that you would also like to do a test to reveal your ethnic percentages by your autosomal DNA as well like through ancestory .com or 23andme .com? :)
+Indigo Blueviolet I'm happy it had meaning to you, and I had something to say worth your time!! Yes I definitely do plan on doing the over all percentage autosomal dna test. Thanks again for listening!!
I honestly thought you were 100% Ghanaian when i clicked on this video.You do look Akan and even Ewe from the Volta region of Ghana. I've met quite a few Yoruba people that i think you look like too. Although my parents are both Ghanaians, i know the people from my ethnic group(Ga-adangme) migrated from Ile Ife in Nigeria. To be honest i wouldn't mind doing one of these tests as they seem interesting.
+Greyceeexo Lol!!! In reference to the 100 per cent Ghanaian,...you did?!! That's interesting because among West Africans, in spite of where they're from I've been told I look Ghanaian above all nationalities from West Africa, more often. I do agree, from my observations of people of Ghana. A part from Akan, you mentioned me resembling the Ewe, I've heard that too. According to geneticists the people that exist in Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and Western Cameroon all represent an interrelated genetic phenotype. Eventually, I am going to take an admixture autosomal dna test, which expounds on percentage wise the countries that contribute to my ethnic make up. In reference to my African ancestry, I wholly believe that the results will state Ghana being the African country contributing the most to my African make up, second to it is Nigeria. I believe it's divine fate my two direct lineages went back to these countries, although that does not represent the largest per cent of ancestral make up. I think I resemble the Akan of Ghana, and the Yoruba and Igbo of Nigeria. The State I'm originally from in the USA received more slaves from Ghana than any other state during the Atlantic Slave Trade. I find this quite interesting, because when I come in contact with Ghanaian people whether they are Fante, Ashanti, Ewe, Ga, etcetera I feel a what I would describe as a......nostalgic connection!!
+OrientalKings Yeah I could've bet my money on you being 100% Ghanaian. I understand that strong nostalgic connection. Although my people came from Ile Ife in Nigeria and are supposed to be Yoruba, I find the Igbo language similar to my present language. Almost every Igbo that I see tell me I look like them and the tonation of the language sounds just like mine.
+Greyceeexo, I am Igbo and both of you look do much like igbo people. We are usually lighter skinned than most other tribes. Also, I know a Ghanaian language sounds like igbo. I do understand some of the words. I can't remember which tribe.
I took my ancestry dna test from ancestry.com. Congrats to you for researching your ancestry, that's a gift you have to carry on your family history. If you haven't written a book in your family history, then you should...
+Nique Starpg Yeah, eventually I tend on doing an admixture test with ancestrydna, from the website ancestry.com also. Good to hear from you!!....thanks for commenting.....
wow, you really love africa!! :) cool video, i'm morrocan berber !
North African Thanks for commenting. I probably have some distant Moroccan Berber Arab ancestry. Most likely I do seeing I have several Fulani dna cousin matches who in Ancestry DNA’s(ancestry.com) all have portions of North African & Middle Eastern dna. It makes sense seeing their origin is a result of Black Senegalese Serer who intermarried with Moroccan Berber Arabs that descended down into Mauritania & Senegal between the 8th and 11th centuries.
My paternal aunt has a portion of North African dna. Upon conception each child inherits a random 50 percent of their parents genetic compositions according to geneticists therefore you can share ancestry with peoples, and not carry their dna. Often the evidence of your shared ancestry with these peoples will show up in the dna test results of siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, or great grandparents & so forth. These test results in this video solely represent two distinct lineages in my family, that being the direct maternal & direct paternal. When I tested with Ancestry DNA I discovered I was 85 percent African- 28 percent Ghana, 19 percent Nigeria, 12 percent Benin/Togo, 8 percent Mali, 7 percent Senegal, 4 percent Cameroon/Congo region, 4 percent African Southeastern Bantu, 3 percent African South Central Hunter Gatherers.
Then 12 percent European in their updates,...previously it was 13....in the update it is....7 percent British, 3 percent German, 1 percent French, & 1 percent Norwegian
And 2 percent Native American
I have connected with dna cousin matches from Africa in Ancestry DNA’s database, those in the USA, the Caribbean, & South America(specifically Brazil).
@@GuardianoftheGoldenStool wow, i hope we are related! i'm sure i have some SSA through my father line, my mom looks white(she is morrocan from mountains) but my dad, he gave me his big lips, that's the only SSA i can see on him..:)
i just love reading the history of africa, and i've realised north africa and west africa especially mali, senegal were so CONNECTED! so i won't be shock when i do the test
Awesome, congratulations 💕
I like your video, you seem very passionate about your family history
Thank you 😊,....I just how it all interconnects. Ultimately I see it like this,...the social culture, identity or set of experiences of an ethnic people no doubt affect a family, and ultimately the individuals that the family is comprised of. It's all to me an also a past, present, future cause effect cycle. Even genetically it's been proven that our ancestors through their dna past down from things such as their hidden fears(phobias), memory, and portions of their subconscious knowledge. We've all known for some time they pass down their biological conditions.
and actually you strongly resemble a teacher of mine who is also Yoruba! Eku ori ire(congratulations) brother!
+King Konscious E ku ori' ire to you also!!!!.....That's funny you say that about my resemblance and him,....Lol!!!... I do resemble Lol!!! some of those Ife bronze statues.
Best video ever brother wow
Well done nice video lots of good information
Great video! Seeing your excitement about your results was touching as well as hearing you talk about the deep connection you've always felt. Glad you finally got answers. The African Ancestry test seems very interesting. I am curious as to how they are determining the specific tribes though? As there are so many, how do they link your DNA to a specific one? Also, I could hear your dominant southern accent but in some parts of the video I thought I was hearing an African or maybe Caribbean accent as well in certain words lol..thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!!!!!....and your comments,....glad you share my excitement!!!!........I actually I did two videos concerning ancestry dna testing,....this one,....strictly concerning two specific lineages,...my direct maternal and direct paternal revealing the origin of a foremother and forefather, another video based on my detailed comprehensive admixture with Ancestry DNA(ancestry.com). African Ancestry specialize in mitochondrial dna testing using the mitochondria which mothers passed down to their children for generations, and y dna testing by using the y chromosome which fathers pass down strictly to their male children. They can determine the tribe seeing that each has it's distinct genetic signature which circulates among them. In regard to the accent, I am originally from South Carolina, on the coast and it's coastal plains there is a dialect there called Gullah that developed during the Atlantic Slave Trade related to Bahamian, Jamaican, and Barbadian Creole.
I love your video so very much ! It is moving. You do look Nigerian!
Thank you Stephanie!!!! I'm glad it touched you.
It really made me smile because I ran into your video somehow. I suspect that I am Nigerian mostly and a man once told my father he looked just like his grandfather who was Nigerian and it was scary. I had dreams of a Nigerian Goddess, Oshun when I was younger and Yemaya, too when I prayed and asked for me to be shown where in Africa my ancestors were mostly from.
I did the Ancestry DNA test back in December and am currently awaiting the results. I definitely will be doing this test for both my mother and father's side as well!
I'm Yoruba-Nigerian. Congratulations to your results. You do also look Ghanaian. Ghana was my first thought when I first saw your face. Maybe it's your father's side.
Honey Adeniyi Did you listen to the whole video? These lineages mentioned solely represent my direct maternal lineage, a Yoruba foremother, and an Akan forefather on my direct paternal lineage. I have ancestry from several ethnic groups in West and Central Africa, as most black Americans do. Testing with the company Ancestry DNA has been far more rewarding than testing with the company African Ancestry which these results are from in this video. Through Ancestry DNA I have discovered literal distant cousins, dna matches who are also Edo, Igbo, and Hausa-Fulani from Nigeria, Ashanti and Fante from Ghana, Fula(Fulani)from Sierra Leone, Fula(Fulani)from Guinea, Douala from Cameroon, Mandinka from Senegal, Wolof from Senegal, Mandinka from the Gambia, Mbundu and Bakongo from Angola, and Lorma from Liberia.
lol I'm Nigerian and as soon as I clicked the video I said to my dad "He looks Nigerian".
Well this test only revealed the origin of two very specific ancestors on two very specific lineages, that being the direct maternal and direct paternal,...but I did recently take an admixture test with ancestry.com and 59 percent of my Africab dna comes from between Ghana and Nigeria. 28 percent Ghana, 19 percent Nigeria,..being the second highest,....and 12 percent Benin/Togo. According to geneticists collectively all the peoples existing in the aforementioned spaces represent a group of interrelated phenotypes.
As a White European American. We "Might" be related from the Yoruba people. Ancestry DNA claimed me 1 percent African (Yoruba). My mother and I have slanted eyes. My dad said I have j high cheek bones. As light as you we might you might be related through the European Side
That Yoruba proverb is deep. You had the best Vid on DNA...you gave a lot of context...it was interesting. Congrats. My MITDNA lineage is Mende of Sierra Leone. I have to get a male relative on my father side to do the Y/Paternal to find out my pops lineage. My father died. I want my root...not add mixture DNA.
5:07 It's fine to want to get specific, but I really don't see the point of attaching yourself to one specific african tribe. We are a representation of the whole of west africa at this point. Not just this tribe or that tribe
Scoring57 not necessarily so
Anyway to get a hold of you somewhere?
You have Instagram? You can follow and message me there, and let me know who you are from UA-cam. Just type in cedrick.white, and you’ll find me.
You look the spitting image of my Yoruba ex! In fact before I clicked on your video, I thought you were going to have a Nigerian accent.
Could u tell me if I look Nigerian, or Ghanian or whatever?
I know I'm months late but this really inspired me could I interview you, over the phone most likely if so inbox me.
+Sade' SoBlessed I'm glad it did!! Yes, no problem. I will inbox you.
+Sade' SoBlessed Got you
This dude is CLEARLY Yoruba. I called it EASILY before I saw the video. If he goes to Lagos or Ibadan today, he will see thousands of people with his facial structure. Its so easy to call. I don't have much experience with the Akan so I didn't know about that.
+Khalid Kay Lol!!!.....I get where you're coming from,....totally. There are those that say I look more Akan of Ghana. The peoples that exist in Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and Northern and Western Cameroon are all to be said interrelated phenotypes.
I'd like to do AfricanAncestry sometime but they're just too high for me $300. I am glad that they do transfers, where if you have done a Y-DNA or mtDNA from Family Tree DNA, you can transfer it to them and the price is about $100 less.
My maternal grandfather did FTDNA's mtDNAplus and I'll transfer it to AfricanAncestry in the future. I can't deal with his paternal lineage because according to 23andme it's European.
Do you plan on doing an autosomal test, such as either 23andme or the popular ancestry.com or both? We've done just about all the major ones except Geno 2.0, though I'm trying to get my granddad to do Tribecode (Not DNA Tribes, but Tribecode from Centrillion Biosciences)
+APgeneticgenealogy lover .......Yeah, I intend on doing the test with ancestry.com,...to hear the break down of my African,...European,...Native American,....etcetera ancestry. I was wondering whether there are companies that do such as what happened with Blair Underwood(On the show ...Who do you think you are) where as the ethnicities were broken down by continent,....and then following that the African tribes were given with the countries, the European ethnicities. When you have a lineage tested with African Ancestry,...let me know the results. In regard to the European lineage, it's a part of you, our African ancestors were flawed humans also, some great, some not,....yet we want knowledge of their background,.....not IDEALIZING it. They were probably those folk if the kingdom which conquered them and sold them did not do it,...would have 100 per cent done if the shoe was on the other foot. Such is the case with your European ancestors,....they are a part of you,....think of it in a non bias way. Yet, I could understand why it's not as exciting finding out, because all our lives we've heard the boast of that,......Africa is the more intriguing,...and EXOTIC!!
+OrientalKings I think I got this right. This is supposed to be a discount on ancestry.com's test for $80 instead of $99 plus shipping.
click to order a test. They're going to ask you to put your name email and a password on. When you do that it'll take you to a review order page saying how much the test will be when shipping is added.
Now when you get to that, paste this link into your browser search bar (you know that space in the top of the screen with all the numbers and letters) bit.ly/1L9nEm1
The order page should change and you'll see that the price of the test changed from $99 to $69 and with the shipping it'll come to $78.95 (the FREESHIPDNA coupon code doesn't work with it) You don't have to select "submit order" but try it.
Oh!!!!! I'm so tempted to do this!!!! Ah!!!!...but I'm in Shanghai, China now,...been here for a year. I'll be moving back to the USA,...the beginning of December. I intend on doing it when I move back to the USA,.....I would feel funny with all that overseas shipping and time span involved. I rather do it when I come back to the States.
+OrientalKings Hopefully the code will still be good when you get back. I think a faster way to do the code instead of all that copying and pasting is to just click bit.ly/1L9nEm1 from here and it will look just like the page where you'd fill out your name, email and create a password but it isn't. You'd enter the information on it and then you'll see that the price is $30 off.
Don't know how long it'll last but hopefully it'll still be around for a few more months.
+OrientalKings Sorry I forgot to say that a few days ago, the code was disabled. Richard Hill of www.dna-testing-adviser.com/dna-testing-blog.html did say "No expiration date is visible; but I expect it will go away at any time. "
There is still the freeshipping coupon, *FREESHIPDNA*
Congrats Mr. White, your a Yoruban Man!!
+Yolanda Flowers Thank you Yolanda!!! I'm so happy to be a direct descendant through maternal and paternal lines, of these two renown traditions,....the Yoruba of Nigeria, the Akan(Ashanti) of Ghana,......so distinctly renown in their histories and reputation,.............that when African Americans go on that.........Afrocentric route they often cling to these two traditions...........just happy!!!!!!!.....yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im waiting to trace my African Ancestey, I hope im Fulani, from Cameroon, or Nigeria.
+Yolanda Flowers You are probably Akan
I might be Akan, I will check it out, thank you and god bless.
+Guardian of the Golden Stool What were your 8 paternal STR values for the Akan tribe? For instance, Bamileke is 12, 13, 29, 21, 10, 11, 14, 17.
Wow!
I get so emotional when I watch these videos. It's a strong reminder of the slave trade, and all I see are my people that were taken from me
Growing up African-American, hearing the sounds of black Africa, seeing the faces of black Africa, whether it be through various forms of the creative arts, you can intuitively sense your connection to the continent. When you can identify to pin point what portions of the continent, it makes the whole ordeal a lot more special. It's like putting a name to an unidentified face to some degree. These dna test results I mentioned only represented two distinct lineages in my family. I look forward to taking the more detailed comprehensive admixture test, breaking down my entire African percentile, and of course European, and possibly Native American. Yet in spite, the ones I mentioned were solely two distinct lineages, they were special, because they represent the ethnic genes of a specific foremother and forefather who suffer a board the Middle Passage whose legacies weren't forgotten.
OrientalKings I have this crazy idea where I think the AU (African Union) should consider granting citizenship to blacks of the diaspora who can trace their roots to specific tribes, and possess significant dna with those tribes. I have a lot to share about black African history, facts, UA-cam links, blogs, and books. If you are interested please let me know and we can exchange emails/ social media. It's my passion to educate black people (African or American) of our history and our truth. Please check out youtuber "home team history" you will be very impressed with what he has to say
+Roni Yeah, I'm equally a patron of African history, especially precolonial African history. I actually have a facebook page dedicated to it. I don't know if you've come across it. It has a photo of Amenhotep the Egyptian Pharaoh as the profile pic, and an Ndebele woman in traditional garb in front of their traditionally colorful geometrical patterned home as the cover photo. Have you come across a page as the one I described? I'm also familiar with "home team history's videos."
OrientalKings no I have not. I just tried looking it up under oriental kings but I could not find it. What is the page called, Would love to exchange knowledge with you
Wow
U are afrikan really refreshing to she afrikan awakening power to you I hope you come home as well
How beautiful I like the quote incredible i think the ancestors are waking us up
You are a good visionary guy only few people can listen to their instincts and guess who they are congratulations to you welcome to the ancestral land its beautiful vibrant and colorful great to have you among us and when you visit don't forget to visit Liberia because that's where the freed slaves were dump, welcome home Bro we love you
I always found it interesting that God “allowed” African people to come to the “best”, “free-est”, and most prosperous country on Earth, via literal slavery, and through under the most extreme abuse and exploitation. You wonder why. But I can’t help but also wonder if a lot of black Americans might now, having found their roots, take their education, wealth and knowledge back to their mother countries to make them more educated, wealthy, and prosperous. Wouldn’t that be crazy?
Do you have a Instagram account? I just ordered the matriclan African Ancestry test kit. I have a feeling it will not be a african result.
Dana Kilgore Yes, cedrick.white,...you can use to find me on instagram. Why do you think it won’t be African? It’s just your direct maternal lineage,...your mother’s mother’s mother’s lineage etcetera unto a foremother of specific origin.
@@GuardianoftheGoldenStool My mother's line comes out of Spartanburg SC. My grand mother was of very fair complexion. Her mother was of extremely fair complexion like white. A lot of mixing. I'm very nervous.
awesomeness. .congrats on yiur results...:) im from puerto rico..I got 20% AFRICA...AND PROUD....
+F Leon Where is that 20 per cent Africa from? Of course like the USA, Puerto Rico received African
slaves from all over West Africa, and likewise small portions from Southeast Africa. I'm aware my maternal
kinfolk the Yoruba of Nigeria were prevalent in that slave population.
Wow WELL DONE.
Welcome to the clan bro. DNA don't lie, now I know. I drew my conclusion before you said it. By the way, the Fon people had been subject to the Yoruba for a long time until the famous Oyo empire fell to incursion from the north. The Fon and other ethnic groups whom they have exacted tributes from sold them into slavery. That's why a larger percentage of slaves of Yoruba extraction arrove in the Americas right before slave trade was abolished. As for the Ashanti people, I can tell you a thing or two also. An average Ashanti person is polite, bold, eloquent, and religious. Attending church in Ghana I saw their level of commitment and enthusiasm and they pretty much come close to the Yoruba people on that count, An average Yoruba man is diplomatic, sagacious, intelligent, and religious. So you can merge those qualities if you like.
+akinwale Alexander Yeah, I'm well aware of the history between the Yoruba and the Fon,...the Fon's Dahomey kingdom. I've also heard various stereotypes of the Yoruba and the Ashanti as you have mentioned. I'm actually going to take an admixture test quite soon, to find out in summary percentage wise of what nations flow a midst my veins in totality. In respect to that portion of my dna that comes from Africa, I believe percentage wise the greatest amount of my ancestors came from Ghana. It's quite possible, witnessing the admixture tests of other African Americans who have the largest of their percentages coming from Nigeria or Cameroon, specifically.
+OrientalKings Yeah, you do have the greatest amount of Akan in you. That I can assure you of. I had a lecturer in my university days in Accra who looked and talked almost like you. I mean the resemblance is so significant that one can mistake both of you as siblings. That was the reason I said DNA don't lie.
akinwale Alexander Yes, I agree with you even upon hearing the Fante and Twi languages something jumps within my belly or people who have an accent curtailed by these tongues. It's as if my spirit has an instant recollection, based on a buried memory within my soul. This is what assured me before I took the dna test that I must of had a direct Akan ancestor, and of course many more. By the way, what origin are you,...noticing your Yoruba name?
Your guess is right bro. But I had my tertiary education in Ghana. It was during that period that I immersed myself in the culture. I picked up a little Twi and Ga along the way.
He looks very nigerian before he even spoke. I was waiting on the accent lol. Just because others try to erase who you are - they can't - it remains within
This guy is an African from his accent....am i wrong?
i think its a new york accent
+Jennifer Lee Hahaha.....Maybe Carribean mixed with African American slung. Sounds like an African who's trying African American slung. I'd rather stick to my African dialect.
+Gibbs Jakatiga Dude,....what's up with you?!!! Ha?!!! What profit would I get from that?!!! If you would listen to the video carefully, you would know I have roots on the coastal plains of South Carolina, effected by Gullah creole originating on the coast. Yet, in this video the accent is not even prevalent in my speech.
Gibbs Jakatiga hello how are you nice video man.
Darius Mosley ....Whatsapp? I'm good. How are you?
You are a Sag like me and I am Yoruba too from my results.
Congrats:) on your results. I recently received my African ancestry results and I am very disappointed. It says I'm European but it does not give me the origin. On the similarity sequence paper, there's suppose to be bolded letters indicating what I share with the Europeans but there is none. I don't think African Ancestry is accurate at all.
+samanthadwight1 That is only one particular direct lineage in your family. You have multiple other ones, just that one distinctly is European. It should at least indicate some countries, that's weird.......
I'm Kongolese Angolan na ko beta yo ehhh ozo comprendre ?? alle salamah
Ashanti's are part of akan clan in Ghana, welcome to Ghana Ashanti kingdom
Im Ghanian and you do like very Ghanian. I almost stopped watching your video because I thought you were a Ghanian confirming your ancestry IS Ghanian
l clicked on this video because you resemble my uncle minus his tribal marks... am yoruba by the way from osun state
Wow,....that's funny,....really!!? I met a guy from Osun state before, he had such an awe striking kindred spirit, there was something in his voice!!!!....that was so utterly familiar to me, like a relative of mine, and equally his appearance.
this brother looks like my brothers step son.. He from Cameroon.. but his mama is mixed.. interesting.. he kinda sound like he got an accent or something.. not hating though..
Lol,you look and kinda sound nigerian.nice vid Bruh
you're Ghanaian,its not very hard to tell.I almost didn't watch your video b'cos i thought you were a Ghanaian clowning about the ancetry DNA thing :) Your accent is unmistakenly Akan :)
my 9ja brother! Real son of Oduduwa. 1love
Im took still looking for the tribe.but i found " Cameroon" to be the place
I knew you were Nigerian. If not Nigerian I would gave guessed Bantu from Congo or Gabon.
+hsfmi Really?!! Lol!!!....that's funny,......love to hear people's thoughts of this nature.
+OrientalKings, I knew you from growing up in the eastern part of Nigeria and they look like igbo's too. I meant that you remind me of relatives and people I grew up with. I initially thought you were joking with all the discussions. One thing is that West Africans are the same because you look like the igbo people of eastern nigeria.
+Omalicha There are some commonalities between West Africans, but there are enough noticeable differences too, to be able to often to denote what area in West Africa a person is from and at times even the country and ethnic group. Believe me, I've done it, and seen other West Africans do it. According to geneticists, West Africa is divided between interrelated genetic phenotypes. For example the people between Ghana and the countries in between to Western Cameroon represent this sort of linked together interrelated phenotype. I could see why you say I resemble the Igbo. I think a large portion of my West African dna originates from the Akan people of Ghana and the Yoruba and Igbo of Nigeria. In Ghana possibly also the Ga. I've been around Igbos they do personally have a familiar feeling to me.
Are the Achan people of Ghana Hebrews of the Torah? I asked because it was the Hebrew people who were sold into slavery by the so-called Africans.
The Akan people of Ghana are not Hebrews. Twi is NOT an Afro-Asiatic language. It’s a Kwa Niger-Congo tongue. Not only this, the Ancient Hebrews were not black, Jeremiah 13:23 even proves this when the prophet uses the ancient Ethiopians(Cushites, Sudanese) in his analysis of speaking of a people so pigmented enough they could not change their skin color, mindful he didn’t choose his own folk to make this analysis, but black Africans. Also in Lamentations 4 the Hebrews are complaining about how dark their skin has become due to harsh enslavement and famine as it was not the norm. Their norm in this chapter is mentioned as being a range from reddish brown to white skin. Even the Shulamite in Song of Solomon 1 spoke of her dark skin as being an oddity due to working in the vineyards, high exposure to the sun. Also in Matthew 26:6-13 Mary Magdalene wiped Jesus’s feet with her hair. You can only do that with long straight or wavy hair as if it was a hanging towel, not afro-textured kinky hair. You would almost have to do a head stand to wipe someone’s feet with afro-textured kinky hair lol.
@@GuardianoftheGoldenStool, the minute that you said thst the ancient Hebrews were not black, you were in error. Moses was thought of to be an African (Egyptian). Joseph's brothers thought that he was an Egyptian when they came down from Yeshar'el to buy grain. With all due respect, you don't know what you're talking about . The ancient Hebrews were and still are black.
Chosen One Since when did African equate with black????? North Africa has had brown caucasoid Middle Eastern phenotypes since the Stone Age. Here is the proof at the oldest uncovered cemetery site in the world in Morocco(Northwest Africa).
www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/oldest-dna-africa-offers-clues-mysterious-ancient-culture
Africa was NEVER one race just as Asia was never one race, even now archaeologists have found small portions of Australoid dna in Native Americans of Mexico, Central, and South America a midst their predominantly Mongoloid genes. Therefore one can conclude not even the Americas have ever been solely one race. Also why did you openly ignore all the proof I gave you of the Ancient Hebrews not being black??? Why??? Are you racist???
@A B Brilliant history lesson! Undisputed! I am Yoruba as well and that's our oral history passed down from time. We migrated from the middle east and settled in West Africa.
A B You’re desperate and brainwashed. The ONLY reason you can read the bible is because of your COLONIZERS. Who needs the literacy of some other people to find out who they are from a book???? Sounds like an infantile dependent mind,...a child, a pure non stop laughing joke!
Lamentations 4:7 states,.... Their princes were brighter than snow and whiter than milk, their bodies more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like lapis lazuli.
Doesn’t sound like black people to me.
Mary Magdalene wiped the feet of Jesus with her hair. Your hair has to be long and towel like to perform such a task in John 12:3
This dude is like an Igbo man from eastern Nigeria. Haha
I'm sure I probably have some Igbo ancestry on other lineages in my family, a part from the direct maternal and direct paternal mentioned in the video. I am confident it's probably the case,....when I come in contact with the Igbo I feel a close affinity, and any measure of Igbo ancestry would be only complementary or enhancing of the Yoruba and the Akan(Ashanti) I mentioned on the video seeing that I read the Yoruba, Akan, Igbo, and Ga-Adangme are genetically quite closely related.
Also, I will add, that not only I read that genetically the Yoruba, Igbo, Akan, and Ga-Adangme are quite closely related, but in dna the Igbos closest kinsmen are the Yoruba.
Bro you are Yoruba straight up by looks! wow
Yea you look like Yoruba Boy .... tell Me do have spelling in some pronunciation if yes then you are Yoruba 100%
Oh you think so? Lol! Reword the latter half of what you said? Did not comprehend your meaning.
@@GuardianoftheGoldenStool what is said is what I meant am Nigerian and am telling you that 99% of Yoruba people have problem with some Certain pronunciation. Am not saying it to be insultive I like em and they are good people I only said it so if you do then it will be a confirmation for you.
Look it up if your taking it personal ... thanks
+Emanuel For Africa I’m not taking it personal or anything but I just didn’t understand your grammar. The Yoruba are one of the many African ethnic groups in my gene pool. Their dna just happens to be passed down via my direct maternal lineage by a foremother by way of my mitochondria. If my appearance is representative of them it’s due to having so much dna from ethnic groups from between southern Ghana and southern Nigeria. Those being which I discovered from Ancestry DNA cousin matches opposed to African Ancestry direct lineage testing, the Edo, Igbo, and Fulani of Nigeria(northern group), the Ashanti, Fante, and Ga of Ghana, and the Ewe of Togo.
I don’t look like this black guy, I will take a dna test but I don’t need to, to know I’m not Nigerian..
Adebodi eh bro!
yoruba. congrats man. visit home and check us out.
nigeria i mean.
akan too.cool
+chimakalu41 Thank you!! I definitely have intentions on doing so,.....probably first Ghana, then Nigeria.
Wow I am happy for you, by the way are you single, you are very handsome.
look at my video..I say it there.
F Leon,...excuse me for such late reply,......which video?
It's pronounced "YOUR-u-ba"
I thought you were a hebrew israelite and didn't believe in the white man's science.I go on your videos all the time.I'm surprised to see you on a african ancestry video.I would love to see you making more videos.
You sound like Malcolm X lol
In what way??....is it my enthusiasm about knowing where I’m from?
Custodian of the Golden Stool Your tone you sound like him like yall could be related or something
How do you know a Yoruba proverb but not know how to pronounce the very word "Yoruba"?
Piss off, he is an American embracing his Yoruba roots, he didn't grow up with our language