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[Max-a-tax @MadMax_887]

I made a graphic representing possible paleolithic African populations, and relationships with modern populations. This is my first time making a phylogenetic graphic and much of it is inference, so please bear with me. In this thread, I'll break it down; sources at the end.

[Max-a-tax @MadMax_887]

@NOflexZONE191 Some of the earliest ancestors of African Americans (in the continental US) were Portuguese speaking Congolese and Angolan people. Sometimes even Admixed.

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@NOflexZONE191 I'm sorry y'all having to do deal with this, man. It's not right.

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@Original_Libbro I wouldn't even put it past them to do that 🤣 that's the sad part smh

[Lib Bro @Original_Libbro]

Damn, 37kya. This is probably what Papa E-P2 (E1b1) looked like

[Jamaican #FBA Supporter 🇯🇲 @XMelanite]

West Africans simply do not get enough credit for this....

[Bennedict @BennieSonamzi]

He is still missing, please repost until he is found.

[African crowns @afrocrowns]

1958 - Photographs capturing initiation festivities amongst Kabye people in Togo.

[nat ♥️ @khaj_nat]

Dancer from the Ekonda people || Congo (DCR) 🇨🇩🫶🏾

[African crowns @afrocrowns]

1912 - Young Yoruba men, centre wearing irun didi (cornrows) hairstyle - Ihumbe, present day Ogun state, Nigeria

[African crowns @afrocrowns]

1914 - Two Igbo men , noted as tattoo artists, with dreadlocks photographed in Neni, present day Anambra State, Nigeria

[Max-a-tax @MadMax_887]

@t3kknine Probably Haratin, with some unlucky Bidhani in the mix. There were a few dark skinned Maure in the Deep Southeast that ended up in South Carolina and Georgia, as well

[Max-a-tax @MadMax_887]

For me, as a Black American, I've found cousins from these countries and ethnicities

Nigeria 🇳🇬 - Igbo
Mauritania 🇲🇷 - Mauré
cote d'ivoire 🇨🇮 - Mandinka
Ghana 🇬🇭 - Asante (Akan)
Algeria 🇩🇿 - Mixed Saharan Black, Arab and Imazighen

Hope to find more, soon

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A list of the ethnic groups of the African cousins I found by gettin my parents, 2 of my grandparents, and one of my uncles to do Ancestry & 23andMe.

1. Nigeria 🇳🇬- Igbo, Yoruba, Edo, Ijaw,
4. Ghana 🇬🇭- Akan
5. Senegal 🇸🇳- Wolof, Fulani
6. Guinea 🇬🇳- Fulani
7. Liberia 🇱🇷 - Bassa
8. Angola 🇦🇴 - Mbundu
9. Sierra Leone 🇸🇱- Temne, Mende, Susu, Mandinka,
10. Uganda 🇺🇬- Bantu

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A list of the ethnic groups of the African cousins I found by gettin my parents, 2 of my grandparents, and one of my uncles to do Ancestry & 23andMe.

1. Nigeria 🇳🇬- Igbo, Yoruba, Edo, Ijaw,
4. Ghana 🇬🇭- Akan
5. Senegal 🇸🇳- Wolof, Fulani
6. Guinea 🇬🇳- Fulani
7. Liberia 🇱🇷 - Bassa
8. Angola 🇦🇴 - Mbundu
9. Sierra Leone 🇸🇱- Temne, Mende, Susu, Mandinka,
10. Uganda 🇺🇬- Bantu

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@jasonterry2024 Some of us have ancestors from modern day Mauritania. Not a major amount, but some of us descend from Soninke, Wolof and Haratin folks that came from the Southwest and South Central portions of the modern area.

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@AnthonyGSupreme I'm an example of this myself. 76% West African, almost a quarter European. Never been a question of my Blackness lol.

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@AnthonyGSupreme I've seen Black Americans have 28-33% European, yet no one would question or second guess their Blackness just by their look (unambiguously Black)