A Breakdown of my Cameroonian, Congo, and Western Bantu Ancestry | AncestryDNA
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- A Breakdown of my Cameroonian, Congo, and Western Bantu Ancestry | AncestryDNA
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Note: The majority of my Cameroonian ancestry could also be from my father side. I’m relying on the AI from the Ancestry DNA website to determine which side I inherited from which parent. My previous research pointed to my father having more Cameroonian DNA so it’s possible that the breakdown could be the reverse. Either way I’ll update you all if I find out anything different. This is ongoing research. Either way the breakdown of the history of the Cameroonians is still the same research wise.
You People are all my brothers and sisters. I’m 100% from cameroon (born and raised) but i’m actually base in Europe. Love you all guys
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Unbuntu fam.
Cameroon also dominates my DNA results.
@@ceeceetracey9839 waouuu goooood. Welcome ❤❤
@@ArliMelda ❤
If you are from South Carolina and Louisiana then your Western bantu ancestors are primarily the BaKongo people. A lot of BaKongo were sent to North America more than any other bantu ethnic group. Other bantu tribes went primarily to Brazil. Research Kongo Kingdom. African Americans especially from South Carolina and Louisiana have strong BaKongo dna to the point you can find their influence in these regions the most until today.
Bless ✌🏿
I do have Kongo so that makes sense. I have been told that I look like the Bahia women in Brazil.
Not only bakongo. Other tribes in what is called drcongo now had many of their people taken and sent to Kongo kingdom to be sold to Portuguese. Kuba and luba people
@@africaine4889 Not true and has been proven time and time again. Luba and Kuba people were not sent to Kongo kingdom to be sold. They were sold to Arabs in Indian ocean slave trade.
Any small slavery that happened to Kuba and Luba people had nothing to do with Kongo and it is related to the Chokwe in Angola who enslaved them. Nothing to do with BaKongo.
Again, majority of South Carolinas and Louisiana are overwhelmingly BaKongo. It has been proven time and time again and even the African Americans say it themselves. Until today even their dna links to BaKongo and there are many BaKongo culture in these 2 regions of America specifically. Peace ✌🏿
@@africaine4889 Also fascinating. Very interesting. I need to look into that as well.
That’s weird because my grandmother is from Virginia and my dads family is from New York and I have western Bantu Niger Congo dna
I’m 17% Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu peoples. Thanks for this
Cool results! YW! 🌟
I just got my Ancestry DNA results this past Monday and I'm 18% black even though I'm half Puerto Rican and half Honduran until I did my Ancestry and just found out that I'm 7% Cameroon Congo and Western Bantu Peoples, 3% North African, 2% Nigerian 2% Senegalese, 2% Benin and Togo, 1% Mali and 1% Eastern Bantu Peoples.
That’s a significant amount of African DNA! Wow! 🤩
Thanks for sharing.
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka you're welcome. I knew I was part black due to my Puerto Rican side even though my skin is not black but I knew it. Also because 7% Taino, which are basically Indigenous Puerto Rican that originated in Africa and no wonder I love learning combat sports so much because since I'm 2% Senegalese, I found out that Senegal's national sport is wrestling, which I heard that it's more famous than soccer in Senegal and few of my martial arts classmates pointed out that I have that blood
@@bryanreyes7382 that’s so cool. I had no idea. I guess that’s why the people in my family like to fight as well. 😁That’s the blood from Senegal ha ha ha. It’s so neat to find out what people are made of. And yes, Puerto Ricans have a significant amount of African DNA.
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka yes that is true. I'm proud of my African heritage
@@bryanreyes7382 ✊🏿
Im from Louisiana born in raised (mom & pops side)
40% Cameroon, Congo & western Bantu peoples
19% Nigeria
17%Mali
15%Benin & Togo
6% Ivory Coast & Ghana
Lovely results! I have several matches from the Louisiana area! 🌟
my buddy is from Louisiana and my father's family is from SC. I told her her family's dialect and accent sounds almost identical to my family in SC.
Im willing to share my
47 % nigerian
Bantu people
26% cameroon
14% mali
And small percent Madagascar
Thanks for infomercial information about great people
Awesome results! Thank you for sharing. Yes, African people are great! Thanks for watching and thanks for your kind words. ✨
I AM a Bantu woman unapologetic..Born in USA. My mothers Afrikan ancestry traces back to Cameroon the Tikar tribe. My husbands actual Afrikan ancestry traces directly to Gabon. Kongo was a great kingdom. Kong with a K= kingdom, never Kong with a C= colonialism and conquered.
I love my Afrikan ancestry and look forward to repatriation.
The word Abantu means a set a part people. If you have ears to hear what I’m saying fam. Hear it!
👂🏿 open
👀 open
🧠 open
Thank you for the information sis ✊🏿
very good to know the history of our people.
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka
It’s crucial to know the history.
Muntu means mankind( black mankind) Bantu all of black man and woman.
Bantu= Hebrews. Gods people. A set apart people. Be proud of being a Bantu.
Very good information! 🙏🏿
Ohh I’m picking up what ur putting down yooo I’m 61 percent !
I’m western Bantu aswell
This is an in depth research and deep analysis. Wow
Yes! Thank you for watching 🙏🏿
Wow ❤ this ..This is well explained
Thanks
I truly appreciate your feedback and support ✨🙏🏿
Great job!
Thank you so much 🙏🏿🌟
Good morning I just found your page and I have 5 of the regions in me that I found thru ancestry just got my results
Hey there! Thanks for connecting. Do you have family in the South? SC or GA?
I am 32 percent Cameroon Congo and western Bantu peoples as well according to ancestry dna
That’s awesome! Still so much to learn about them. 🙏🏿
On my test,, I've been wondering which percentage would be higher out of cameroon or congo regions. This part is confusing at times. Good video
Thank you! Yes very confusing at times. 🌟
It’s interesting how they break that up into different peoples when Cameroon , Congo all the way down to Benin and Togo are all the same people. Just in different lands.
Exactly!
I have all these in my DNA as well. Not as much as you, but nevertheless it is there.
Western Bantu, Cameroon, Congo.
Granted its a small percentage but nevertheless it is there.
I would love to find out more
I think most African-Americans get the same results in those general categories just with varying numbers. It would be nice to see more specific tribal information but we know that is probably years away for this company.
I guess this is true, myself, I am of Caucasian descent
@@TexasNanAhhh. I made the assumption, but I guess it’s just the general categories that they have. Very interesting. Do you know where the African ancestry comes in at?
No, I am very curious though to find out
Yes agree. bantu ppl left Cameroon, some went south, and some went southern west, and created “kingdom of Ndongo” but Portugal wanted the kingdom . Instead of fighting fair, they kidnapped ppl and dropped them off in brazil, Mexico and on august 20,1619 they arrived in Hampton , va .. speaking kimbundu. Eventually millions were taken to USA and Portugal took over and renamed it Luanda , Angola.
Some of these people renamed themselves Gullah people (which is a mix of bantu language and Sierra Leone languages)
This is awesome information! I actually learned something new. I always wondered what influenced the Gullah people.
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka yes and in the 1700s a group of Gullah people , escaped slavery with the help of the British , half went to Nova Scotia and the other half was dropped off in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, they renamed themselves the krio tribe and the krio language is a mix of Gullah + Jamaican patois and Nigerian creole. (They arrived years later in the 1800s) this is why ppl of the current day krio tribe can fully understand the Gullah language even though they never came to USA. None of this stuff is taught in schools.
I love the Gullah accent. The Bahamians sound like them too. I heard that a lot of the same Africans in the Bahamas are the same ones that ended up in South Carolina. Is that true?
Also noticed the 305 on your handle. I am also a Miami native.
@@Justafox305 My dad mentioned some ancestors form Barbados as well. I will do some research on that.
I got the same results my mom is Gullah from Edisto island SC they told me they were brought there to grow rice isolated from the main land for so long the 50s when they finally got a bridge to Charleston and areas is how they kept their customs and language proud to have a very unique family tree
Such interesting history. Thank you so much for sharing. My grandmother mentioned that her grandfather “raised rice“. Their family was from South Carolina as well, but we don’t have a specific location because they ended up being moved to Georgia.
My family is from just above the area considered Gullah (in williamsburg and clarendon counties) though half of us moved to NY but when I see videos of the Gullah people here on CZcams OMG they sound just like my family. Some people cant understand them. I understand it clearly, and my father speaks like that but super fast lol. Thats what I grew up off of.
My results is close to yours from Ancestry the percentages are off on the Cameroon, Nigeria, Mali. Great vid thanks for sharing....I sent you a message..
Hey there, DNA twin! 😁
OK I will email you .
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka Okay 😃
Nice result cousin
Hey cuz! ✨ Thanks so much for stopping by. I appreciate the comment and the view! Yes, I need to learn a lot more about the Cameroonian culture since most of my DNA is from there.
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka yes I understand 100% is very good to know about your roots for the same reason I am about to do African ancestry on my partenal side
@@RA1N1TO Yeah that’s going to be good. I did it for my maternal side. Can’t wait to see the results 👍🏿
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka wow can't wait to see your result I let you know as well
@@RA1N1TO Mine My African Ancestry DNA Results
czcams.com/video/d2_qAr9wuxQ/video.html
Good to know 👍🏾
I am a BANTU from Gabon 🇬🇦 (used to be part of KONGO KINGDOM; Angola , DRC , Congo, southern part of Cameroon ...).
Indeed, BANTU means people/Human beings ...
sing. MUTU/MUTE [mu: tu: / mu: t] a person / someone.
Hi fam! ✊🏿 Thanks so much for watching my video. I appreciate the clarification. I had no idea what the terms actually meant.
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka You're welcome! By the way, let you know Bantu people are also found in south Africa. I think it is the most largest ethic group in Africa. We are said to be HEBREWS and coming from MISRAYIM (Egypt)
@@paceposhman6837 Both make sense because I have traces of South African and North African DNA. 🙏🏿
Andu means people,mundu person in the akamba tribe of 🇰🇪 kenya
@@paceposhman6837 we're not Hebrews. Are you so ashamed of our lineage to the point of ursuping another man identity because you see their culture better than ours?
Cool results
Thanks so much for watching Savage and thanks for the comment! ✨
Wakanda Forever! ✊🏿😁
As a Congolese the terminology- niger-congo is colonialists as Bantu. It’s not an ethnic group. William bleek used bantu because he didn’t understood the history of the continent. There are Bantu languages, and common culture but it’s not an ethnic group. There are different subgroup of bantu. But most afro descendants in the western world are descendants of actual Angola/both Congo, Gabon.
Thank you for the information. Even the name “Africa” is from the colonialists as well.
That’s what I was trying to understand and why my dna results didn’t say angolan because all my family from my grandmother come from Virginia and about some 20 odd slaves came to America from Angola
It is an ethnic group, infact the whole of Niger Congo people since the predominant haplotype is E1B1A. People with a common language almost always share a common origin as well.
i only have 2% Congo Dna which i see isnt a lot compared to a lot of people i see on here. I have a lot of Dna from Mali 10% and IVory Coast and Ghana 17% and Benin Togo 22% 39% Nigeria
As we can see different types of people as names that define them.but there is a groupe of people who called themselves human aka bantu that’s means the rest of the the world population are not human
I'm Hispanic but according to my cousin I have ancestry In Cameroon and I really don't know what that means or how I'm related. Like I said I'm Hispanic and in the country I was born in has a large population of African tribal population due to slavery. So I'm not sure if that's why or because I have direct connection to Cameroon outside of slavery.
That's a good question. Try to learn more through your family matches. Do some census research.
Bantu 's look Hispanic all the way over to burnt fine brass like me. I'm Cameroon-Congo Bantu and 40% Nigeria. My people were dropped off in Virginia, and Charles Blockson is my first uncle. His dad also my grandfather's dad, James Blockson, escaped slavery from Delaware to Philadelphia on the underground railroad led by his realitive Harreit Tubmen. I still reside in Pennsylvania.
@@user-ft2dq1dt8n do you know if they were ever enslaved and brought to south America?
@@Illuminati089 Only Virginia, but I would bet that some of my relatives did go to South America seeing that they took the largest population.
@@user-ft2dq1dt8n interesting ty very much for the info.
I'm from Louisiana and I have only identified as African-American but many people think I'm Creole lol. Our results are kind of similar, here's mines: Nigeria (25%), Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples (23%), Mali (17%), Ivory Coast & Ghana (14%), Senegal (5%), Ireland (5%), Scotland (4%), Benin & Togo (2%), Wales (2%), Indigenous Americas-North (1%), Sweden & Denmark (1%), and Baltics (1%).
Nice results! Yes, we have some similar areas listed. I have quite a few matches from LA.
im from southwest louisiana
I haven't did one but that was close to my dad's test. All the way down to Benin and Toga.
I was born in Florida but parents born in Haiti and me and you got the same list 😂😂 and yes I'm haitian creole
Mine are pretty much the same as yours. I bet we’re not distantly related.
i am a bantu from angola welcome back home sister!
bantu has many meanings in many African dialects language babantu means the peopleo banabantu means the children of or body soul and spirit these tribes are the descendants of yakoba
Thank you 🙏🏿
I am so honored and thankful for your gracious welcome home 🌍.
It’s really nice to know the meaning for Bantu.
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka you are most welcome, 💝🌍💙sister! all praise !
🙌🏿🌟
Western highlands aka Bamenda Grassfields was /Is Bamileke “country “.
That’s great to know! I will keep that in mind as I do my research. I appreciate it! 🌟
Thank you for your video. Very proud of my 2% Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples..1% Senegal..1% Mali..and 1% Benin & Togo..☺️
🙌🏿 Absolutely! Much to be proud for! 🌟
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka❤
We may be related my ancestry results are almost the same exact as yours. Percentages are our only differences.
Are you on Gedmatch?
This was interesting because my father had 2% North Africa, 2% Congo Cameroon, 2% Senegal, and 1% Nigeria in Ancestry. Family Tree showed he had 3% Bantu, 1% Egypt. I had 2% Congo Cameroon, and 1% Senegal in Ancestry, and 3% Ethiopia in Family Tree.
That’s interesting. Several factors are at play, including how the platform calculates inheritance and DNA. You’re definitely going to see a lot of similarities and differences between different companies. That’s why I upload my DNA to other platforms just to see how they all lineup. They are definitely all different though. Very cool results!
We may be related I have all these in mine that how I found your video not sure if it linked us because your CZcams name may be different
That’s possible. Do you have family roots in Georgia or the Bahamas?
I think we related! We share a lot of heritage
It’s possible! Do you have roots in SC or GA?
I was thinking the same thing. The percentages differ in places but otherwise my dna breakdown looks the same. That’s what brought me to this channel
@@pl1763 So glad! Yes the categories are pretty similar or the same on various platforms. Please stick around! Thank you so much for watching and commenting! 🌟
Our DNA is reversed 😊 i have 1% Congo/Bantu. My 5th cousin by DNA is a gorgeous black man. Im redheaded Scottish/Irish so white i glow.😂 we find we have so much in common. Gardening, we both love to cook, love football and the same teams. Very cool we are in touch.
Such a cool find! We are definitely opposite. 🤭
I am majority African with a sprinkle of Irish ☘️. Visited Dublin in 2017! Lovely visit! 🌟
I just learned I am am 11% Cameroon, Congo, Western Bantu! I have so much to learn
Congratulations and welcome to the fam! 🙌🏿
Definitely keep researching! 🌟
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka 11% Cameroon/congo/west bantu. 12% indigenous Dominican, 7% Senegal, 5% Mali, 4% Benin togo, 4% Northern Africa, 2% nigeria, 1% Ivory Coast and Ghana! I’m sorry but does this basically mean I’m Dominican with African ancestry?
You are over 30% African. So yes. Pretty much. Very interesting results. It tells the story of the origin of so many Dominicans in general. I have two videos on my channel of Dominican ancestry.
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka I will check them out and this makes me so happy! I love learning new cultures so this is such a breakthrough for me
@@nycmatthew206 So glad! 😊
Im from Florida parents from haiti and my dna results is atlest 90% like yours, for some reason everybody hates haiti but we just family that got separated
I completely agree. My family on my father side is from the Bahamas. I’m from Florida too and my entire life, people have been speaking Creole to me or asking me if I was from Haiti. So there is definitely proof in what you are saying. We are just Africans that were spread throughout the Caribbean. We have the same exact bloodline.✊🏿
@KinfolkChatwithSD reading your reply made me catch chills because I feel like the world hates haiti but specially my black ppl my african ppl why hate what got separated we all come from the same pot
@@futuremillionaire3316 yeah it’s very sad. Haiti and Haitians definitely get a bad rap. People like to make blanket statements about the people and culture and it’s not fair. We are all family. 🫶🏿
@@futuremillionaire3316 yeah it’s very sad. Haiti and Haitians definitely get a bad rap. People like to make blanket statements about the people and culture and it’s not fair. We are all family. 🫶🏿
@KinfolkChatwithSD crazy part haiti did so much for every black slaves around the world but that's out the window nobody cares and I go visit haiti yes it's poverty but It beautiful sides that they don't show
Wow, we have almost the identical results.
Hey cuz! 👋🏿 😁
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka hi 😊
The Bantu Peoples migrated in waves starting 2000bce from Egypt Sudan-Akksum Nile Valley ->Igboland -Yoruba lands & Twi (Ashanti Akan etc) - In Cameroon the Bamileke tribe began their migration from Nile valley C 900 CE. To the Western Highlands (Grass Peoples)-
From West Africa the migrations you speak of . . . . . occurred -
Oh my gosh that’s such good history. I’m going to definitely screenshot this and save it for my research. I appreciate that. It lets me know the journey that my ancestors took and clarifies more of the results that I received.
I MIGHT have at least 1 of your dna because I am 80% sub Saharan African, 62.5% West African, 40% Nigerian, 20-30 Central African so Congolese and Nigerian and I am also 15% Western Bantu
Love those results! I am sure you are right! 😃
Just upload you raw dna file to Living DNA and get a more detailed ethnic breakdown beyond a country listing which is too broad.
Thank you 🙏🏿.
I have actually used Leigh DNA already. I have several videos on this channel about it.
You have solar heritage tow to I a my descendant of Western Bantu People's, Ghana, Ivory Coast ,Nigeria, Congo, Camaroon, and Mali.
Please tell me more about the Solar heritage.
This implies your precisely from anglophone Cameroon which currently in conflict. Limbe or Victoria city in Southern Cameroon is where many slaves were lodged in to America
Wow. Thank you so much for sharing that. I will add it to my list of places to research.
I just got mine done I got 54% Spaniard 20% Central America -indigenous 9%basque 4%france Portugal 3% Senegal 2% Cameroon Congo western Bantu 2%North Africa 2% southern Italy 1% and Nigerian 1% and I almost thought I was 100% nicaraguan 🇳🇮from Central America I’m more European then American central
Nice results! You definitely have a lot of mixture in there. Spanish DNA for sure. Look at those African percentages 😃
My biggest percentage is Cameroon
Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples
26%
Ivory Coast & Ghana
20%
Nigeria
17%
Benin & Togo
10%
Senegal
8%
Mali
7%
France
3%
Nigeria-East Central
2%
Ireland
2%
Southern Bantu Peoples
1%
Norway
1%
Baltics
1%
England & Northwestern Europe
1%
Wales
1%
Nice! Very similar to my results.
Just to let you know we are related. Our ancestry is the same exact. You should hit me up I swear.
Where is your family from? I have a contact from on my page. We can connect that way as well.
Same region like my grandpa Bangwa 😊
✊🏿
I got mines yesterday I’m trying to find my real father
Use Family Matches
wow
I'm 11% Cameroom, Congo & Western Bantu
🙌🏿 🇨🇲 Nice!!!! 🌟
Who is parent one and parent two?
The left side is my father and the right side is my mom according to the graphic.
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka OH, thank you very much praise Yah!👏🇮🇱🇳🇬🇨🇩🇨🇲🇲🇱
My people's Cameroon-Congo western Bantu on my DNA test. Bantu 20% Nigeriain 40%
Very nice! Love the results! ✊🏿 🇳🇬
Im Tikar from Cameroon my family is from Louisiana
Very nice. I need to see how the Tikar people and people from Louisiana connect. I have had a few matches from there and I’m not sure how the location relates to my family.
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka in my case we assume the Tikar women were sent from Cameroon, to Dominica, then to Haiti and Jamaica then to Louisiana.
I’m glad you brought that up because I’m getting a lot of pings from the Caribbean. I do have Caribbean ancestry on my father’s side but for some reason my mother side is starting to pick up some as well. Thank you so much for that I’m gonna research it. My mom’s side has the Louisiana connections. 🙏🏿
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka glad to help
I came out with 10% Angolan/Congolese and 30% Native American
Very nice results! Do you know where the Angolan/Congolese came from?
I'm from southeast Louisiana born and raised of creole descent. I'm 15 % Cameroon, Congo, and western bantu peoples, and I don't think Ancestry DNA is telling the truth. How can my ancestors be from all those countries being lumped together? These people still don't know where people of color are from, and they want to give us these bogus African countries and false percentages.
That’s why you should upload your dna to other companies to get a better breakdown. This work is still ongoing.
mine is the same
Nice! 🌟
35% Cameroon
Beautiful! ✊🏿
Bantu. You have Israelite bloodline 👍🏽❕
🤔 Interesting and makes sense! www.quora.com/Are-the-Bantu-the-descendants-of-the-Israelites
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka Ohhh. It seems you already know this about your history. Vn. Your ppl and around the world are waking up fast to the truth 💡. In the slave trade it was about taking African Israelites not just any old Africans👍🏽
I am learning from you all via your awesome comments! 🌟 I went and looked it up quickly. Very interesting information. I am going to continue to research it because you are not the 1st person to say this to me over the years. 🙏🏿🌟
82% congo bantu east
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@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka & 10% antarctica, 8% egypte and sudanese.🫶🏿
Nice and diverse! Love it! 😊
Oh row we might be related how can I find u
Are you on gedmatch? Either way send me a message on my contact form on my about page.
@@KinfolkChattingwithEricka do u have FB if do send it 🆗
@@loversBirdsixninedaddy I will email you.
I’m Mexican American, I have at least 3% Bantu DNA. 1% for sure comes from Ugandan Bantus, the 2% comes from Western Bantus from Cameroon.
It’s crazy cause my paternal great aunt looks like a black lady. Straight up!! Everyone else looks like your average Mestizo except my great aunt. However, a lot my direct paternal family have curly hair.
That’s so cool! Awesome results. Thanks for sharing. Love to hear about my people all over the world ✊🏿
This blogger talks about Mexican and African DNA
whoareyoumadeof.com/blog/what-is-the-senegal-dna-ethnicity-on-ancestry/