Just got my Ancestry DNA Results

[Apollo Creed]

You are Berber until your dad redeems you.

If he aint then I'm copping a Fez

 

[Samori Toure]

If he aint then I'm copping a Fez

Get your self one of these too:

 

[invalid]

I thought Benin was the name that colonizers gave Dahomey tho and they were at war with the Yorubas of Oyo. You right the I just looked up the demographics and the second largest minority group is Yorubas after Fon

Benin is the former Dahomey which was a vassal state of Oyo until the Fon rebelled. But DNA test have been proving that there is genetic overlap between the inhabitants of Dahomey and Oyo. After Ancestry did their system update, all of us that had genetic material that registered as Nigerian switched over to Benin.

Also, that Portuguese/Congo may point to you having ancestors from the Kingdom of Kongo that spanned the area around Congo and Angola.

 

[BigMan]

Ancestrydna update fukked me all up. all i know for sure is i have some ghana/akan and benin and some mali/mandinka or bambara and defintely central african (congo and/or angola)
idk any specific for sure lol smh
all i know is i'm three quarters African

 

[Cuban Pete]

Benin is the former Dahomey which was a vassal state of Oyo until the Fon rebelled. But DNA test have been proving that there is genetic overlap between the inhabitants of Dahomey and Oyo. After Ancestry did their system update, all of us that had genetic material that registered as Nigerian switched over to Benin.

Also, that Portuguese/Congo may point to you having ancestors from the Kingdom of Kongo that spanned the area around Congo and Angola.

shyt is crazy cuz everybody that knows me knows I'm on this African religious tip and I just met a dude whose gonna initiate and mentor me on Palo Mayombe aka The Rules Of The Congo and Haitian Voodoo. Guess I have new countries to visit to retrace the steps of my ancestors 


Senegal fukked me up tho I know a lil bit about Ghana/Akan/Ashanti history but what the hell went down in Senegal? ?? ??

 

[Bleed The Freak]

Considering they work directly with law enforcement with your DNA (that's how they caught the Golden State Killer) I ain't touching this shyt.

I have no record but that shyt makes me uneasy.

 

[Apollo Creed]

shyt is crazy cuz everybody that knows me knows I'm on this African religious tip and I just met a dude whose gonna initiate and mentor me on Palo Mayombe aka The Rules Of The Congo and Haitian Voodoo. Guess I have new countries to visit to retrace the steps of my ancestors 


Senegal fukked me up tho I know a lil bit about Ghana/Akan/Ashanti history but what the hell went down in Senegal? ?? ??

What test did you take that told you you were Akan?

If you see did Ancestry DNA and your results have a combo of Ivory Coast/Ghana and Mali or Senegambai then that more so means you have some Mande ancestry (the percentages you got would provide better context).

 

[mag357]

Dont trust ppl who could literally be lying to me and i have no way of knowing and now they have access to my DNA...
Giving money away for info u cant verify and can be used against you... dont sound good,
But this is of course very interesting

 

[blaccbeard]

Thanks for sharing@OP. I always wondered what my african/Indian(asian)/euro ratio is being PR and all. But then again none of these tests are ever gonna be 100 percent accurate so.

 

[MikelArteta]

Considering they work directly with law enforcement with your DNA (that's how they caught the Golden State Killer) I ain't touching this shyt.

I have no record but that shyt makes me uneasy.

If someone wants your DNA that pop can you threw in the trash is all they need

 

[Apollo Creed]

If someone wants your DNA that pop can you threw in the trash is all they need

 

[Cuban Pete]

What test did you take that told you you were Akan?

If you see did Ancestry DNA and your results have a combo of Ivory Coast/Ghana and Mali or Senegambai then that more so means you have some Mande ancestry (the percentages you got would provide better context).

nah I was just making an educated guess cuz I got ghana and senegal but those are like my lowest percentages single digits like 6% the highest I got was congo benin and mali im guessing the mali is the mande what I do know is there was an influx of slaves from the kongo, yorubas, fon, mande in cuba but i think the ashantis didnt make it there or the wolof so idk why i got those countries

 

[Phitz]

Sounds about right for you. Every other Jamaican I've watched on YouTube have had around 90% or above. Even one light skinned girl I've watched had 88%.

Jamaicans are keeping it black pretty well.

I read Bajans are higher in percentage like over 95%

 

[Maximus Rex]

bought one during their father's day sale this year and got mines back 2 weeks ago

Mines got updated a couple weeks ago

 

[Phitz]

I mean Africa is too diverse to find a soecific answer via testing. Im not saying these tests dont serve a purpose Im saying use it as a reference more so than saying your ancetors are from everywhere you see in your result. I say this because those countries are white creations. For Mande people we will show up as having Malian and Ivory Coast/Ghana results but they are talking about the same people who lived in those places, does that make sense?

yeah makes sense, they are related to the people who exist in those places currently, but those same people could have moved there from some where else, so it's less about geography and more about the families/clans who's dna has been extracted to compare to