African Ancestry

The above are the African components of the Ancestry report. Like our Haitian parent, we are a mix of all the major areas that contributed captives to the colony of Saint Domingue. Sadly, these broad national categories are not particularly useful. After all, Nigeria is a huge nation with hundreds of ethnic groups. The category of Cameroon, Congo and Western Bantu Peoples encompass a huge area of great diversity, too. Comparing the above information with the records of the enslaved population in colonial Bainet suggests that Igbo, Arada, Nago (Yoruba), Bambara or Mandingue, "Mina" and "Congo" may have been the "nations" used to describe them in the 17th and 18th centuries. Perhaps, though they were less numerous, a few Bariba, Hausa, Nupe, and "Senegal" may have also been part of the enslaved Africans we descend from. Running this as raw DNA data on various admixture tests still doesn't tell us much, either. All we can say is that we are overwhelmingly of West African ancestry, and perhaps Northern Africa comes from Spain or the Canary Islands (or both?). After all, "Berbers" were part of the Islamic population in medieval Spain and the indigenous peoples of the Canary Islands were of North African origin.