Hi Palies,lol. Ok here is the gist. A few of my nigerian friends brought their african american friends to get tested to find out where they are from. So my five nigerian friends and 5 african Amerians and a jamaican  did the dna test.
Now my five nigerian friends said they were each 100% igbo, yoruba, edo and hausa, all verified by their parents and languages,etc. So out of the five nigerians 2 were yoruba, one igbo, one edo and one hausa, so when the result came back   last week, the results were as followed,

Igbo before dna=  68% igbo, 32 percent efik after dna
Yoruba 1 before dna=60 percent yoruba, 20 percent fulani, 20 percent igbo
Yoruba 2 before dna= 90 percent igbo, 10 percent efik
edo before=59 percent ishan,21 percent yoruba,20 percent igbo
hausa before=75 percent hausa, 10 percent fulani,15percent yoruba

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Now this dna test is believed to be very accurate due to the fact that is based on mitochondrial dna, which unlike any other dna is the strongest,  So with these results on people who thought they knew what they were by tribe, were wrong, so  it  begs the question whether our tribal identities are just false security, because as we found out a lot of us were not 100 percent what we claim. So  my friend, yoruba 2 went back to his parents with the results, and in the midst discovered that  his mother  and father are not his biological, so after growing up a yoruba boy and now  at 25 years of age finding out that you belong to another tribe, should that change anything?


What do you folks think, because Personally I think over time our tribal identities will start to fade. And also why must we always claim our fathers' tribe and not recognize our mothers' when asked what tribe we come from, after all the mother's dna is the strongest of the two.

EzeUche:

The Igbo person must be from Abia state.

This does not surprise me except for Yoruba 2 DNA. How can the person be Yoruba, when 90% of his DNA is Igbo and 10% Efik? That does not make sense.

ezeagu:

yoruba 2 went back to his parents with the results, and in the midst discovered that  his mother  and father are not his biological, so after growing up a yoruba boy and now  at 25 years of age finding out that you belong to another tribe, should that change anything?

2mch:

Comprehension is very important for the future:

tpia@:

when ezeuche first posted his photo here i did point out he looks very much like a yoruba.


as for the efik/igbo thingy- what difference is there besides culture.

yoruba 2 went back to his parents with the results, and in the midst discovered that  his mother  and father are not his biological, so after growing up a yoruba boy and now  at 25 years of age finding out that you belong to another tribe, should that change anything?

We do realize that ethnic/clan membership isn't strictly traced by 'genetics', right?

EzeUche:




And the difference is not culture, because many Eastern Igbo clans have similar cultural practies as the Efik.

It is the language. Efik/Ibibio/Annang is very different from Igbo language.

tpia@:


in what way are you contradicting what i said?

afam4eva:

It's just that the culture section is slow.

And also why must we always claim our fathers' tribe and not recognize our mothers' when asked what tribe we come from, after all the mother's dna is the strongest of the two.

tpia@:

@ topic

seems to me like the whole thing is another attempt to try to reduce the yoruba population and as such, the thread is suspect.

can we stop all these expansionist attitudes please.

afam4eva:

Meanwhile can you be more lucid on the dna information. It's kinda confusing.

tpia@:

@ topic

seems to me like the whole thing is another attempt to try to reduce the yoruba population and as such, the thread is suspect.

can we stop all these expansionist attitudes please.

nigerian infrastructure is still underdeveloped so why dont we work towards developing our towns and villages and lobby for improved amenities as well.

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tpia@:

see how they dragged two "yorubas" [vs one from each of the other two tribes] and yes, both "yorubas" turned out "igbo" or whatever.

whereas we all know the highest percentage of creolized nigerians are in the east, southsouth and midwest.

with some percentages in the north.

who be mugu and maga here.

and yes, the "igbo yoruba" went to his parents who then "confessed" he was an "adopted igbo". Tribe no dey show for face now.

any nollywood movie in the works here?

hope it will feature a well known nigerian leader who is known to be from a particular tribe

tpia@:

whereas we all know the highest percentage of creolized nigerians are in the east, southsouth and midwest.

So  my friend, yoruba 2 went back to his parents with the results, and in the midst discovered that  his mother  and father are not his biological, so after growing up a yoruba boy and now  at 25 years of age finding out that you belong to another tribe, should that change anything?

ezeagu:

But you're wrong and you're just generalising. The east of Nigeria didn't have massive wars and absorption following, and they also don't have a tale of meeting and later absorbing an aboriginal people in their homeland to where they migrated.

sbeezy8:

DONT BELIEVE IT !!!!

pessin who posted it originally prolly made ish up.

dont see how a person can be "ISHAN" through DNA test I HIGHLY DOUBT ESAN/ISHAN would be in the database. laughable.

tpia@:

if by absorption you're referring to the claim of igbos being the "original owners" of yorubaland then have a good day.

ezeagu:

Some African ancestry tracing companies claim to have information for over 160 ethnic groups in their databases. How many groups in Africa are higher priority than Ishan?