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25 Famous African Americans who traced their African ancestry DNA

25 Famous African Americans who traced their African ancestry DNA - In recent years, more and more people have been turning...

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By comparing your DNA with samples from around the world, a simple saliva test can help illuminate your African heritage. Results show regions or ethnic groups your ancestors came from, including nine in Africa, even if you can't find their immigration records.
Very few of us are 100% African. In fact, the average Black person descended from enslaved people has 75% African ancestry and 25% European ancestry. But we can't always see it and we don't always know where in the family the mixing occurred.
Here in America, if you do not identify as Black/Afro American or you do not look “Black”, then you're not Black. I see that you mentioned that 1% of your DNA is African, more specifically, Malian. This indicates that an ancestor of yours, from 6–7 generations ago, was of African descent.
Evidence still suggests that all modern humans are descended from an African population of Homo sapiens that spread out of Africa about 60,000 years ago but also shows that they interbred quite extensively with local archaic populations as they did so (Neanderthal and Denisovan genes are found in all living non-Africa ...
Michael Gavi. History Professor at Great Zimbabwe University Author has. · 4y. 5% black means your great great grandfather was a full blooded African. This implies you have cousins that are full blooded Africans in any part of Africa most likely west Africa.