Jamaican Ancestry DNA Results

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[@PleasantGreetings2u]

I'm African American from the US. My DNA of 98% is found in people living today in over seven different West African countries including 3% Luhya which is a Bantu tribe that is now in Kenya. My other 2% is Amazonian Native American from Brazil. The Bantu people have migrated to many parts of Africa.

[@zealhunkokoe5242]

Welcome home! The late Malcolm X said in his autobiography that the greatest honour he received was to be called “Omowale” on his visit to the University of Ibadan. I hope we can bestow upon you too, Omowaleola

[@AmericanAfrikan-BurkinaFaso]

Love these results and you are gorgeous asf btw!! 😍😍❤️❤️. I’m also black American with similar DNA results! We are one people! African people and I love it!!!! ❤️

[@raymondmordi7937]

This result did not disappoint. The Anglo- and Franco-Caribbean DNA are mainly from "Nigeria" - which covers what is documented as "Bight of Biafra" and "Bight of Benin". Initially Jamaicans were identified with Akan or Ghanaian-Ivorian DNA as the major element. But from results it is apparent that the "Nigerian" gene is dominant and there are lots of factors responsible for that. The Akans were the earliest group in Jamaica but they were rebellious and mainly male thus they did not increase in any significant numbers until they were gradually "supplanted" by those that were mainly brought from the present Nigeria (Bight of Biafra). Most of the present black Jamaicans had ancestors brought to the island in the 1700s which was when Southern Nigeria (the homeland of the Igbo and Ibibio peoples) became dominant. This Nigerian element also dominated the English colonies in Virginia and Maryland (the USA) and this was also the reason African-Americans tend to have high levels of Nigeria DNA. Another factor was that unlike the Akan element that was mainly male and rebellious, the Nigerian element was fairly balanced between both genders - male and female and it included a relatively large number of children which meant that they could have children and perpetrate their DNA. It is however important to note that the Ghanaian DNA still dominates Guyana, Surinam (the Dutch West Indies), as well as the American Virgin Islands (associated with the Danish). The Nigerian DNA also dominates Puerto Rico and Cuba to some extent. For Haiti, it is mainly Benin-Togo (Ewe and Fon peoples) and the Congolese.

[@shukuratulilah]

Excellent breakdown 👏🏾

[@pietrycranberry6621]

Cool results and I like your accent.😍😍😍

[@dr.anereemorgan]

Thank you! 🌟

[@blackmagic6]

I've watch a lot of these DNA result videos and people of African descent in the diaspora, regardless of them being AA or Caribbean, often have a high percent of "Nigerian" DNA. Anyways, shout out to your ancestors for keeping you pure. Awesome results.

[@caribbeanman3379]

2:28 The Ivory Coast and Ghana thing is probably because people from both countries share the same genetic/ethnic profile. They were probably one people group for centuries before colonialism came along and divided them up. The genes will still reflect the deeper history despite the relatively recent political rearrangement. Similar can be said about people of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi ancestry. All these countries have shared ethnicities because they were originally one country before British divided them up relatively recently. Those persons ancestry tests will usually say something like "South Asia" to refer to that whole region.

[@amaiodo5310]

@@caribbeanman3379 You're correct and this is exactly what happened. We used to be the same kingdom (Asante Nation which was corrupted by the British as "Ashanti").

[@Gustine22]

​@@amaiodo5310the asante is an akan subgroup that belongs in the akan ethnic group the akan ethnic group is the largest ethnicity in ghana and ivory coast making up half of ghanas population and 30-40% of ivory coast population the akans in the ivory coast were originally asantes that migrated to ivory coast or cote'd'ivoire because of a succession crisis in the asante kingdom they were lead by queen abla pokou who was the sister of the first asante king osei tutu I whose sudden sparked a succession crisis in asante kingdom and opokou ware I was voted by the asante royal council which was ran like a parliament as the king in asante council which was the asante defacto government there was a faction that disliked abla pokou because she was becoming too powerful and she became the regent of opouku ware I because he was young back then the faction gained control of most government and tried to get a new regent but abla pokou heard the council talking about replacing her so she and her supporters fled the asante kingdom(modern day ghana)into ivory coast or cote'd'ivoire and settled their with her supporters after her death the akan people in the ivory coast spilt in 3 different tribes baule anyi and ebbrie and the tribes speak their own dialect of akan language their is no standard version of akan

[@Gustine22]

​@@amaiodo5310still remained in contact with the baule and agni tribe cause they controlled some parts of cote'd'ivoire and helped them but that all changed when the british and french came spilt the country into two the asante lost contact with the baule people and eventually they abandoned the asante dialect (asante twi ) and created their own dialect of the akan language asantes could understand baules but baules now have a different dialect that got heavily influenced by the french while the asante dialect was heavily influenced by english

[@amaiodo5310]

@Augustine2201Oduro Interesting, thanks for sharing! I'lI visit the Ivory Coast one day in the future. Abedjan is a very developed city. I know that Asante Nation initially spanned southern Ghana and the Ivory Coast. So we share things like adinkra and kente. The only correction I would make is that Twi (pronounced like "Chwii") isn't that corrupted by English. Even though there are 70 distinct languages in Ghana, most of the other ethnic groups (especially the youth) can also speak Twi. African languages are way more complex than European languages. Ancient African languages are tonal so how something is pronounced can change the word. They also sound very distinct. As a Twi speaker, I cannot understand or even pronounce any of the Ga language, spoken by the Ga ethnic group. Accra was originally Ga kingdom territory and they have their own culture. In addition to Jamaican reggae, I listen to a lot of Nigerian afrobeat. I never understand when I hear Yoruba or Igbo but sometimes the musician will toss in a Twi word like in Cough Cough by Kiss Daniel, he sings "odo" (ohdouh) which is love in Twi.

[@Gustine22]

​@@amaiodo5310twi isn't really language its one of the dialect clusters of the akan language but the most widely spoken dialect along with fante and baule

[@busby7255]

Nice video😊,My great grandmother had your surname and was born in Manchester, Jamaica 🇯🇲. I took the test and my results were similar to yours.

[@dr.anereemorgan]

That's awesome! Maybe my name is in your list of distant cousins.

[@Gyamfi]

@@dr.anereemorgan Ivory Coast and Ghana..use to be all one place or nation..till the French took over Ivory coast and British took over Ghana...soo for over 100 years we were split up......but same ppl....the Akan PPL..Ashanhi tribe.....Fenti tribe .......Dan tribe ......same ppl Ivory Coast and Ghana......

[@Sweetbeariesart]

People who think they know their background usually do not know unless they have taken a DNA test and have done their own research. This is what I have learned with my own family.

[@anitalindsey76]

Am jamaican i took the ancestry dna 36% Nigerian benin and togo 17% mali 13% camaroon and congo and western bantu 13% indigenous 1% 16% European

[@curtis1415]

Your results make sense. Benin and Togo neighbor Nigeria and Cameroonian also neighbors Nigeria. Jamaica imported Yoruba and Igbo in mass amount so all 3 of those regions represent this ancestry history. Your results are reflective of Jamaican history.

[@rakoon678]

Makes you a yoruba. Yorubas and a part of Benin were the same before the british/french divided them. But we still recognise each other as family

[@raymondmordi7937]

@@rakoon678 Not true. The Yoruba only became a major element from the 1800s after the British had abolished the slave trade and Benin-Togo is not mainly Yoruba but Ewe-Fon. Please read Paul E. Lovejoy's research. Prior to the 1800s, the Yoruba were not major source of slaves. The Caribbean DNA is mainly dominated by Nigerian (Igbo), Ewe-Fon (Benin-Togo) , Ghana-Ivory Coast (Akan) and Congolese. The Yoruba shows mainly in Bahia (Brazil) and Cuba since the slave trade persisted in these areas much later (ca. 1880s).

[@rakoon678]

@@raymondmordi7937 Well, since you and Paul E. Lovejoy happen to understand the history of my own people more than I do, can u explain why there are still yorubas with several still present in today's country of Benin? Or why DNA results show that I have genes to the people there?

[@raymondmordi7937]

@@rakoon678 The history of slaves in the new World is different from th e history of "your own people in Nigeria". There are records of embarkments, the time frames of the journeys and where they landed in the Americas. And I guess this is also "history of your people" Every researcher knows that the British abolished slavery in the early 1800s and this included Jamaica. Then the French followed suit. The Yoruba element only became dominant following the collapse of the Oyo Empire and the civil wars that plagued Yoruba land which provided slaves. This were events that occupied after the abolition of slavery by the British, the French and much of what is now the US. This apparently explains why Yoruba culture isn't strong in these areas. The Yorubas were taken mainly to Brazil and Spanish speaking colonies since Spain and Portugal tolerated slavery till the 1880s. No amount of revisionism can change history.

[@rakoon678]

@@raymondmordi7937 History? Just like history discovered the people living in Africa and the great rivers. So why do you think it is foreigners like you and your researcher who would write our history for us? Well like they say "until the lion gets it's historian the spedition will always glorify the hunter". I rest my case

[@ebenezerkittoe9115]

80% of African Americans have Nigeria as the biggest percentage. Very few have Ghana as the biggest percentage.

[@Gustine22]

Most Jamaicans have 20-28% ghana dna and nigeria 33% she might be a kromanti maroon

[@julietdeleon447]

@@Gustine22 Where did you do your research?

[@00700556]

Nigeria is a region that was made up in 1960. The thing about it is that REGION shares a lot of the same DNA. A person from ghana could do their DNA test and it’ll say 60% nigerian. Here is the kicker- that area had 300 different tribes and 500 different languages so who knows where who is really from? All the DNA results show is that you just share DNA with people in that region.

[@fivestar000]

@@Gustine22😂 shut up it’s Nigeria most of us ALL have and tiny little bit of Ghana. Case close

[@ta974th]

​@@Gustine22 I got 57% Ivory Coast/Ghana according to AncestryDNA which came mostly from my mum who is of mostly Jamaican Maroon descent so there are Jamaicans like me who get these percentages although it is quite small

[@proverbalizer]

I said Nigeria 3 seconds before you said it....I don't know if it's just that so many people were taken from that region or if the modern Nigerian population is so large that the testing companies just have more samples from Nigerians... cause it seems like it's always one of the top result for diaspora folks including African Americans in the U.S.

[@julietdeleon447]

It makes more sense that given that more people were taken from the region that is now modern day Nigeria, as well as Benin and Togo, than any other region during the slave trade most people in the diaspora have a significant amount of Nigerian DNA today.

[@jurdenetingling1605]

Jamaica out of many one people

[@dr.anereemorgan]

Same suh! lol

[@MyThougths]

This is really cool! I'll have to use your link

[@annawilson4928]

Oooo!!! Super cool!!!

[@Aquamayne100]

when ever I asked my jamaican grandmother where the family is from, the response was theyre brown people lol

[@dr.anereemorgan]

😂

[@MiguelBandito1988]

I'm from the U.S and my results are almost identical to yours.

[@loveislove8741]

The Ghana \Jamaica connection is cute for social media . Nigerians and Jamaicans both have that cocky, TAKE ON THE WORLD energy. There are villages in Jamaica that still proudly hang onto Yoruba culture .

[@DonovanDun]

Jamaicans are mainly Nigerian, not sure where the Ghana came from but it seems to be myth

[@jamaicanloneanimal8224]

I’ve heard of full blooded Ghanaians getting Nigerian on dna tests

[@NativeNomad10]

Jamaicans are not mainly nothing, its a mixture of West African people for black Jamaicans. Some people have more percentage per west African country

[@alveem7295]

Nigerians and Ghanaians always fighting 😅

[@julietdeleon447]

You're right. Jamaicans as a whole have more Nigerian DNA than any other West African country. When you add Benin/Togo to that total it's even more true, since these countries all one region at one point in time called Yorubaland

[@jamaicanloneanimal8224]

@@julietdeleon447 Not “as a whole” but for the majority, yes. Keep in mind that 60% of the average Jamaican’s maternal line come from Ghana and the majority paternal being Nigeria as a lot of Akan women were paired with Igbo men. For the most part most Jamaicans get Nigeria as the highest percentage but I’ve also seen a few where the Ghanaian was almost equal and there’s a few (probably a smaller percent of the population) where the Ghanaian component was higher

[@Eden76353]

I am Jamaican, and ancestry dna test indicates that I am 71% Nigerian. I am only 10% Ghanaian.

[@celticmulato2609]

The "average" Jamaican which is the majority of the population 92% African or predominantly African is 93% Sub SaharanfArican! The Brown/ Mulattoes "average"is abt 60% Sub Saharan African

[@markiec8914]

Read that Wikipedia page again. It says 92% African that includes 25% Brown/Mulatto/Mixed Jamaicans. Which means that the average Jamaican African DNA averages between 67 to 80% ( statistically very similar to black population the USA).

[@BecauseofWar]

Ghana wasn't known as Ghana during the time of slavery in Jamaica. It was known as Ashanti Empire (or Gold Coast for the europeans) and it occupied territory in todays Ghana,Ivory Coast,Togo. Most of the maroons in Jamaica were of Akan (Ghanaian heritage) also known as Kromanti (named after a trading fort in Eastern region Ghana) as they were disciplined and trained for war in their empire so once in slavery they rebelled and organised and fought tor their freedom. Not only in Jamaica did they rebel, they rebelled all over the carribean, Surinam,Guyana and the Virgin Islands etc. So this is why you will always hear the link between Jamaica and Ghana because they played a important part in the formation and history of Jamaica. But there were loads of other groups of Africans (congo, yoruba, Igbo, mande, etc) brought to the islands who were not as organised and rebellious hence why you hear less of these group of Africans.

[@longinusukenta]

There were slave revolts all over the America's not just Jamaica or Akan. There were hundreds in the US. There were successful ones in Mexico, Barbados, Suriname, Colombia, Ecuador, you name it. And of course, the most successful slave revolt happened in Haiti. Slave revolts were never only an Akan thing.

[@tvs9978]

The area known as Ghana today was not known as the Ashanti Empire. The Ashanti were within what is Ghana but there were many other independent kingdoms in what is knowm as Ghana today. Stop spreading ignorance

[@LeViz101]

Have you tried LivingDNA? I’m taking that dna test and it helps you find your ethnic groups within your African ancestry. I have a video of the website breakdown on my channel.

[@dr.anereemorgan]

No I haven’t, will check it out 👍🏽

[@LeViz101]

@@dr.anereemorgan I just got my results this morning and it shows that I’m 100% African. I’m basically a super African. My highest percentage was Yoruba (37.4%) followed by Akan-South Ghana (11.1%) and Luhya-Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania( 10%) among others.

[@kitto3608]

Your African percentage is very high! Well done

[@jo100]

Your Scotland is 11% Percent, is that a Great Grandparent Or A 2nd Great Grandparent?

[@mariepearl-harbour2335]

It could be as far as a fifth Scottish Great Grandparen, from what I have observed from another KZbinr who was Afro-American also. She definitely represents the melting pot of Jamaica.

[@kenmorgan4963]

It's crazy you look and sound just like my daughter. Which parish are you from?

[@dr.anereemorgan]

Really? I'm from Clarendon.

[@AutonyB]

Wow,lots of celtic in jamaican, i have too

[@00700556]

Nigeria is a region that was made up in 1960. The thing about it is that REGION shares a lot of the same DNA. A person from ghana could do their DNA test and it’ll say 60% nigerian. Here is the kicker- that area had 300 different tribes and 500 different languages so who knows where who is really from? Tribes were against each other and they would literally help europeans destroy other tribes. All the DNA results show is that you just share DNA with people in that region.

[@hfglv2996]

Nigeria is a multi divers place in africa it does not mean thats where you are originally from. You have to just acept thst you are african and probably not just west african decent. you have a vast dna the % from nigeria show it because as yet nigeria is a region with many people from africa have been by economically. There using nigeria as a proxy for africa but it does not represent your origin. Africa is your decent ❤.

[@charlesagain]

Nigeria is a specific place. Don't conflate with the whole of Africa.if her dna matches a Nigerian gene pool, then she is of Nigeria . I am a Nigerian citizen for your information

[@jujuonthebeat776]

What were your percentages

[@iknowthetruthcommonsense3643]

Whats your maternal haplogroup ?

[@officialljto]

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[@IsakuItou]

Wa gu wan mrs nige!

[@ListenArt]

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[@DerrickDave-wo2bp]

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