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[QUOTE]Originally posted by vidadavida: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mansa Musa: [qb] Hello everyone. This is a subject that has always interested me because it deals with a personal topic. Where "we" come from. I myself attempted to contact Dr. Rick Kittles on the issue of AA ancestry outside of West Africa (especially the Nile Valley/Horn-East African region). He did not reply but I did get a response from Dr. Shomarka Keita. This is what he said: [QUOTE] [b]Date:[/b] Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:07:16 -0700 (PDT) [b]From:[/b] "shomarka keita" <shomarka_omar_y_keita@yahoo.com> [b]Subject:[/b] Re: The African diversity of African-American ancestry and connections to Nile Valley Civilization [b]To:[/b] *Mansa Musa* [b]<Email Address Witheld>[/b] Good morning, Please go to Pubmed Entrez, and search African Americans. The biological heterogeneity of which we spoke refers the historical infomation that places Afro North and South American origins in the Senegambia region, the Akan peoples regions, the west Cenral African regons (Bantu speakers), southeastern Africa (see the Braziian data) and some Madagascar. If you look at the Gwen Midlo Hall's book on ethnicities in America you will see the evidence of different sources. I [b] know of [b]NO[/b] study or historical datat that shows that folk were brought from Ethiopia/Somalia/Kenya or northern Africa (including the Nile Vallley) to the US. [/b] . IT is true that some of the mtDNA results done by ancestry businesses have been coming up with some unexpected results-- [b]this does not mean necessarily that these folk came straight from a particular region[/b] . It may speak to certain variations actually having either come back into Africa a long time ago, or having originated there in the first place.[/QUOTE]It was not the answer I wanted but that is what he wrote. Certainly Dubois view of AA's being Pan-African people in the sense of being of multiethnic ancestry is accurate but I have not encountered evidence that the subjects of the middle passage had as widespread of origins as he implied. I would have thought that Africans coming from these parts of Africa was, while miniscule, atleast traceable to some degree but evidence for the claim that [b]African-American ancestry has complete continental variance remains elusive[/b] . [/qb][/QUOTE] :cool: [/QB][/QUOTE]
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