All Ethnic Warriors and the Name checkers Association, Read and be educated!!!



Four of the major coastal tribes
of Western Africa: the Yoruba,
Igbo, Akan and the Gaa-
Adangbe are dissimilar at a
glance and evidently geographic
neighbours, but very closely
related, if examined in detail at
the genetic level.
Several studies have been
employed over the years, with
findings bringing up linkages of
genetic similarity between
differing regional ethnic groups.
One in particular, conducted by
Adebowale Adeyemo, Guanjie
Chen, Yuanxiu Chen, the
National Human Genome
Centre and Howard University,
and Charles Rotimi of the
University of Ibadan provided
results indicating the genetic
similarities between the four
major West African ethnic
groups.




Their findings further indicated
surprising genetic variance
within groups, but almost none
across groups, similar to the
closeness of human genetics
across races, showing more
range within than without.
According to this landmark
study there was 99.9 percent
within-population variance, the
between-population variance
was less than 0.1 percent. This
means that Yorubas, Igbos, Gaa
and Akan are 99.9 percent
similar, while within each of the
groups there are variations/
differences between individuals
as high as 99 percent i.e. One
Igbo may be 99 percent
genetically different from
another Igbo, or one Yoruba
person to another.


It is important to remember
that these groups were not
initially split by national
borders; prior to the European
division of the continent, these
ethnic peoples traded, migrated
and wedded as the times
permitted, allowing apparent
regional and national mixtures
that remain evident in modern
day genetic analyses of some
Yoruba and Igbo individuals.
Race and ethnicity are
considered to be related
concepts. Ethnicity is often
assumed to be somewhat more
of a cultural identity of a group,
often based on shared ancestry,
language and cultural tradition,
while race is assumed to be
strictly a biological classification,
based on genetic materials and
bone structure. Ethnicity is
often used synonymously with
ambiguous terms such as
nation or people, depending on
which source of group identity
is emphasized to define
membership, the following
types of (often mutually
overlapping) groups are:
Ethno-linguistic, emphasizing
shared language, dialect or
script — example: Hausa.
Ethno-national, emphasizing a
shared polity or sense of
national identity — example:
Nigerian.



Ethno-racial, emphasizing
shared physical appearance
based on genetic origins —
example: African-American.
Ethno-regional, emphasizing a
distinct local sense of belonging
stemming from relative
geographic isolation —
example: South Islanders.
Ethno-religious, emphasizing
shared affiliation with a
particular religion,
denomination or sect —
example: Christians.
Also worthy of note is the
shared Volta-Niger root
languages, Yoruba and Igbo
languages belong to the same
family (YEAI branch), showing
the common start of the diverse
languages spoken by these
ethnicities.
Consequently, barring the
inclusion of culture, tribal
affiliation and nationality, it
could be said that the the
Yorubas, the Igbos, the Akans
and the Gaa-Adangbes are but a
people spread over a wide area
with different ways of life. Thus
discrediting any claim of a
unique Yoruba “race” or a
genetically insured Igbo
ethnicity often employed by
politicians and traditional rulers
in rhetorics and propaganda
messages.


The reality, however, is the
hampered economic strength of
a not truly united front, with
success delayed continually by
the lack of pan-African
sentiments on the part of the
leadership, and poor economic
decisions taken in an imperialist
system.This is not to revile the
revered skin deep differences in
each group’s cultural
development, but serves to
indicate and rejoice in the
underlying sameness of what
appears ‘not’ to be.
A body does not fight itself.
These kinds of research serve as
a balm to the much divided
heart of the ethnically-
concerned West African, and to
the African at large: one root,
many branches; united by blood
if not spirit.



www.herald.ng/yoruba-genetically-99-9-percent-igbo-study-reveals/

oh God! I'm need of a Job. someone please help me

Op are trying to cause a state of confusion here? We the Igbo's say no to this.

danemenike:
oh God! I'm need of a Job. someone please help me

Pray harder!

Do an all night prayer, but not on Nairaland

And then submit CV's.

OK?

Kosi wahala

quid:
Kosi wahala

no wonder they are always fighting. taiye and kehinde.

princey83:


no wonder they are always fighting. taiye and kehinde.

Gbam

Tufiakwa! Chukwu ekwe kwa na! Igbos are Igbos, nobody has our gene. Yorubas came from haven without a parachute so technically they have the same gene with the fulanis - hence their kwara connections.

This is hilarious. Just stop the joke op. How xanthine you tell me that there super enemies (on nairaland) are related?

Did you people notice whenever this news posted, the yorubaas keep quiet...not commenting, because they relish, in fact they crave like glucose to be associated with Igbos. But Igbos are adamant...they want nothing to do with yorubas...nothing! Yorubaa..LOL

They want to be Igbo by all means. Ichie Fashola...lol

Make dem do that of the Jews and my people from the down side for me....... Until then, I reserve my comment.

But uncle op,how come we don leak p.o but they do?

Iru katikati wo niyii. We have only two tribes in the whole of Africa: 1. Yorubas and 2. the rest lumped together.

I hope this might help to subdue all the unnecessary e-tribal wars going on in Nairaland.

Nkem4040:
They want to be Igbo by all means. Ichie Fashola...lol

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