There is no one country in Africa from which African-Americans originate. While historical and DNA records show that most of us have ancestors who came from West Africa, neither science nor history can currently say ‘you have 20 percent this African DNA’ etc. Unfortunately, many people believe that DNA ancestry companies can provide them with this information. I, myself, thought this before doing more research. The methods used for current ancestry testing, cutting edge though they are, are identifying genetic markers you share with someone else in their current database, which is fine except that these markers are likely to be passed down from one ancestor, or at best a few ancestors, who probably lived many generations ago. This is not the same as knowing grandma or grandpa came from say Ireland in 1860 and can lead people to falsely believe that they have a connection to a place and people, that really represent a fraction of their entire genetic makeup. Though for some people, even this minor connection may be enough given the absence of a definitive cultural identity
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