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Maps | Tracing African Roots
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Exploring the Ethnic Origins of the Afro-Diaspora. Central and Southern Africa. 8220;Benin/Togo” Region. I’ve always been fascinated by maps and i’m convinced they can be very educational and useful for anyone wanting to learn more about their African roots. So I will be adding to this collection of maps regularly. For now you can check the current maps via the drop-down menu or these direct links:. Who wanted to make a map. 8221; source: http:/ www.cyon.se/#! Geef een reactie Reactie annuleren. West Afr...
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DNA Studies | Tracing African Roots
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Exploring the Ethnic Origins of the Afro-Diaspora. Central and Southern Africa. 8220;Benin/Togo” Region. In this section i will be posting scientific DNA studies relating to the African origins of the Afro-Diaspora as well as illuminating the genetic diversity found within Africa itself. Via the drop-down menu or these direct links below you can browse through them as i have already arranged them according to populations being studied. I will add new ones after also posting them on the main blog. In fact...
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West-Central Africa | Tracing African Roots
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Exploring the Ethnic Origins of the Afro-Diaspora. Central and Southern Africa. 8220;Benin/Togo” Region. West-Central Africa is the single embarkation region where the biggest number of African slaves were exported from to almost all destinations within the Americas. See map below (which features data for all of the Americas) and also the Slave Voyages Database. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (2010) ( http:/ www.slavevoyages.org. And its smaller neighbour as Congo Brazzaville. A breakaway province o...
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West Africa | Tracing African Roots
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Exploring the Ethnic Origins of the Afro-Diaspora. Central and Southern Africa. 8220;Benin/Togo” Region. Knowing which African populations score the highest for each of the 23andme “Sub-Saharan African” (SSA) categories can be a good guideline for their predictive ability. Below screenshots are all taken from people who have kindly agreed to share their results with me. For which i am very grateful! 8221; speaking populations. Afro-descendants will therefore be shown as overwhelmingly or even almost excl...
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Ethno-Linguistic | Tracing African Roots
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Exploring the Ethnic Origins of the Afro-Diaspora. Central and Southern Africa. 8220;Benin/Togo” Region. Even though Afro-Diasporans will usually trace their African roots exclusively to areas within Western, Central and Southeast Africa, these subregions of the African continent are already enormously diverse in ethnic groups and languages! And also make more sense of any DNA testing you might have done. Probably the most detailed ethnolinguistical maps online can be found on the amazing muturzikin.
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Lower Guinea | Tracing African Roots
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Exploring the Ethnic Origins of the Afro-Diaspora. Central and Southern Africa. 8220;Benin/Togo” Region. The historical definitions of the socalled “Guinea” region. After which the socalled “ Angola” or Loango coast. Began The modernday country of Equatorial Guinea. Pretty much demarcating the boundaries. Also the Gulf of Guinea. Is a geographical legacy of this interpretation. Click on maps to enlarge). Historical map of the Guinea coast c. 1725 by Hermann Moll. 1743 Homann Heirs Map of West Africa.
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East Africa | Tracing African Roots
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Exploring the Ethnic Origins of the Afro-Diaspora. Central and Southern Africa. 8220;Benin/Togo” Region. Knowing which African populations score the highest for each of the 23andme “Sub-Saharan African” (SSA) categories can be a good indication for their predictive ability. Below screenshots are all taken from people who have kindly agreed to share their results with me. For which i am very grateful! Brief overview of the main patterns i’m able to pick up on. 8221; or a “ calculator effect. 8221; because...
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Upper Guinea | Tracing African Roots
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Exploring the Ethnic Origins of the Afro-Diaspora. Central and Southern Africa. 8220;Benin/Togo” Region. On this blog i will often refer to Upper Guinea as one of the main regions within West Africa. It is a historical term commonly used in slave trade literature, alongside Lower Guinea. This map specifies the origins of Upper Guinean slaves exported via Cape Verde to Latin America, circa 1580. In earlier decades the routes would also have included northern Senegal and possibly Mauritania. First map not ...
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Africa | Tracing African Roots
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Exploring the Ethnic Origins of the Afro-Diaspora. Central and Southern Africa. 8220;Benin/Togo” Region. These charts are NOT meant to be taken as an absolute or definitive display of ethnic origins for modernday populations! Ethnic labels given by Europeans do NOT per se reflect how the slaves would have self-identified themselves! Take note of the. And any other details given to familiarize yourself with the CONTEXT. The samples might have been. African origins captives onboard slave ship. A Luso-Afric...
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AncestryDNA Regions | Tracing African Roots
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Exploring the Ethnic Origins of the Afro-Diaspora. Central and Southern Africa. 8220;Benin/Togo” Region. Ancestry.com provides extensive background information and careful disclaimers on how to interpret their “Ethnicity Estimates” and the various “Regions” which are shown in it. In my opinion it’s a more honest approach than followed by 23andme for their Ancestry Composition. By not clicking on the regions shown on your DNA results page or the? AncestryDNA results of actual Africans (see also this page.
