African American words derived from our Igbo ancestry.

i thought the gullah people are of liberian and/or sierra leonean decent.

Hero, with all your knowledge, you might as well write a book, make sure to add me in your dedication.

The Gullah are of Igbo descent. Go a and ask them and they'll tell you themselves that they are.

Yes, they are descendents of African-American and Caribbean ex-slaves who foundered the nation. Many members of our gullah populations went to Africa to joint in on the foundering of the nation.

my uncle in NC told me about the gullah people and he said that they are liberian and they speak some liberian based language/creole. also i have an aunt who is originally from GA and she told me about the gullah people and their liberian ancestry. maybe along the line they have some igbo blood in them but from people i've talked to and research, they are of liberian descents.

Hero,

Just admit it.  You don't like the Yourba's do you?


between,

I don't like those ugly mofos either.

At least he STANDS for something, what do the others STAND for?

Hero you got a somekind of obsession with african-americans being Igbo ancestry? I'm personal friends with professor Henry Louis Gates jr and Matt Schaffer and we have wrote to each other about this subject. For your information, most of the slaves who arrived to North America where descendents of Akan/Ashanti/Ewe/Fante/Yoruba people. Of course there where igbos but much smaller extent, even the senegambians outnumbered igbos in the North America (without them the popular music we hear now would be much more different. Senegambian tribes, mainly Mande-speakers invented blues single-handenly without other tribes input.)


But Mr.Hero, I do have a lot respect for you. You truly use alot of energy to research your ancestors lineage and it is wonderful thing. Most african-american youth nowdays focus on much more worthless things ie. rap/gangs etc. And by the way, to me, you look like igbo with some white or native genes mixed in.

One thing for sure though, you can claim caribbean blacks igbo, about 95% of them are pure igbo ancestry, Jamaica being expection. That too explains caribbeans domination in sports as we all know igbo's are superior in that department. Bahama's, St. Kitts, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad & Tobago, you could say all those following nation's black population is 100% igbo. Jamaica in the other hand is mix of Igbos and the tribes of Gambia. Igbo's are very muscular, hairy and their athlecism is something you can't even explain, but their limbs tend to be short. Well now the gambians come to the picture, mande aren't as muscular as the igbos but their limbs are unbelievable long(Mande people have approximately 10% less fast twitch muscle fibers than igbos.) Long limbs + superior amount of fast twicth muscle fibers = domination in 100m sprint and that's what jamaica is about. Also note that both Nigeria and Gambia were both colonized by british.

A picture tells more than a thousand words; Usain Bolt, the world record holder of 100m sprint. You can see both igbo and mande features, he's an ectomorph but look at this muscles! And yet again sorry for my awful english, my mothertongue is french.

Usain Bolt is going to get SMASHED in the 100meter @ the Olympics - that's for sure

African Americans are a MUTT of every African nation.  They were housed (soften up) on the Carribbean Islands with all the rest of the tribes - then shipped to North America.


Nobody is an EXPERT on African American lineage.  It's only theories and postulates.

However, there are some ships with direct links from "some" african nations onto the US.

But for the most part, the ships scavaged up and down the western African Coast picking up "blacks" from all tribes and incorporating them into the hull of the ships.

This was done to keep them from assemilating and causing mutiny.

Eziokwu ka ikwuru.

where is hero