tooco:
share a link here that proves ur fact.any?

I may have read about that when you were a kid.

ATERI:


What you and I think do not matter; facts are facts!

share a link here that proves ur fact.Any?

ATERI:


I may have read about that when you were a kid.

??,anyway i wish the op gudluck in finding her roots

tooco:
??,anyway i wish the op gudluck in finding her roots

We can both agree on that.

OP you could pass for a Niger Delta woman, especially a Benin or Ijaw woman...

aim5:
OP you could pass for a Niger Delta woman, especially a Benin or Ijaw woman...

You are right if we are to be too simplistic. I'll even add Urhobo to it. To me she looks very much Urhobo but I know the African American story. They've been mixed over a very long period of time and as such its difficult pinpointing a particular ethnic group. Surprisingly, some people are able to retain some looks and even structure peculiar to certain ethnic groups. This mostly favours the big tribes. In the case of OP, I'll say she doesn't really have the well identified Igbo nor Yoruba look. She could be any of them but does not possess that peculiar look that easily gives one away. To me she's tilted to the Niger Delta groups that I supported earlier. Binis didn't participate in slave trade and the ijaws were more of slave merchants. Urhobos on the other hand suffered under the trade but with little information to support it.

m0rena35:


This is true but does that make me more or less African? Lol I wonder because the average African American has 70-99% west African DNA and the average African American has at least 1 white ancestor, but you can look at my dads people and tell there is not white in his lineage at all, they are very tall slim and dark skinned, my moms side is short, light skinned and have some members that look white or half but I carry more of my fathers DNA I am dark skinned, high cheekbones, strong, sure we are mixed but I will say I'm African until the day I die. Like where is Africa America, theres no such place

Your claim or belief of that your dad's side of the family lacks any European mixture is most likely false. The fact of that they are dark skinned and may appear to lack any European features, means absolutely nothing when it comes to the topic of Genetics.

Don Cheadle, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover all appear to have a look in which may give some the idea of that they may lack any European mixture, but they all do have European mixture, and as much or nearly as much so as your average one-of-the-mill African-American does. It is impossible to tell if someone is genetically purely of one single racial makeup via appearance alone.

Yujin:

You are right if we are to be too simplistic. I'll even add Urhobo to it. To me she looks very much Urhobo but I know the African American story. They've been mixed over a very long period of time and as such its difficult pinpointing a particular ethnic group. Surprisingly, some people are able to retain some looks and even structure peculiar to certain ethnic groups. This mostly favours the big tribes. In the case of OP, I'll say she doesn't really have the well identified Igbo nor Yoruba look. She could be any of them but does not possess that peculiar look that easily gives one away. To me she's tilted to the Niger Delta groups that I supported earlier. Binis didn't participate in slave trade and the ijaws were more of slave merchants. Urhobos on the other hand suffered under the trade but with little information to support it.

Based on historical records, it is EXTREMELY unlikely that she has any mixture at all from that ethnic group. It's nearly an impossibility. On the other hand, it is highly likely that she is of some significant Igbo descent.

Lets hope that Ghanaian-SA guy Kwame doesn't see this thread, lol.

m0rena35:



Thank you, if I could have married a Nigerian man I would have, African men in general love me, I meet them a the time, so handsome and dark smooth skin my goodness, but it was too late for me unfortunately lol

interesting

Also a laudable quest any good news?
nb one of your picx looks like an acquaintance of mine n she's Igbo not sure of which part though

You don't look very Nigerian or the typical west African. Try south central African like Angola or maybe far west Africa like Senegal.

m0rena35:


My mother is still alive, my father passed about 11 years ago, but they were both born here in the southern united states, I have been able to trace back quite a bit on my mothers side, but my dads family I am not able to find a lot of information, but I am working on it.

Are you from the Carolinas?

m0rena35:
My best friend is from Lagos, she says I look Ibo (Igbo) so I will go with that until I know for sure lol my husband and I are both descendants of slaves, he Afro-Mexican and I am from the USA, I want us to take pictures like this one. I love the clothes and will be getting some. I also love Nigerian food and music. You guys rock!

That picture is of a Nigerian man who deceived his wife though:


https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/reallife/902802/my-husband-went-back-to-nigeria-last-christmas-to-wed-a-secret-new-wife/

m0rena35:


This is true but does that make me more or less African? Lol I wonder because the average African American has 70-99% west African DNA and the average African American has at least 1 white ancestor, but you can look at my dads people and tell there is not white in his lineage at all, they are very tall slim and dark skinned, my moms side is short, light skinned and have some members that look white or half but I carry more of my fathers DNA I am dark skinned, high cheekbones, strong, sure we are mixed but I will say I'm African until the day I die. Like where is Africa America, theres no such place

You actually do seem rather mixed, I think it's something about your facial structure.

I'm not sure where your non-African ancestry would indicate, possibly neither Europe nor Africa?

Yujin:

You are right if we are to be too simplistic. I'll even add Urhobo to it. To me she looks very much Urhobo but I know the African American story. They've been mixed over a very long period of time and as such its difficult pinpointing a particular ethnic group. Surprisingly, some people are able to retain some looks and even structure peculiar to certain ethnic groups. This mostly favours the big tribes. In the case of OP, I'll say she doesn't really have the well identified Igbo nor Yoruba look. She could be any of them but does not possess that peculiar look that easily gives one away. To me she's tilted to the Niger Delta groups that I supported earlier. Binis didn't participate in slave trade and the ijaws were more of slave merchants. Urhobos on the other hand suffered under the trade but with little information to support it.

You could be somewhat right.