Whittiker gets chieftaincy title after DNA reveals his Igbo identity

http://odili.net/news/source/2009/apr/11/306.html

TD Jakes,Blair underwood,and forrest are all "igbos"

I think most AA's are

Many African Americans of significant Igbo ancestry do not know that they have this ancestry. The Igbo were one of the common ethnic groups found amongst enslaved Africans in the United States. Igbo people have also arrived in America through migration, one of the reasons being Nigeria's poor infrastructure and the effects of the Nigerian-Biafran War.
The Igbo were affected heavily by the Atlantic slave trade. Igbo slaves were known for being rebellious, having a high count of suicide in defiance of slavery. In the United States the Igbo where found the most common in the state of Maryland (ironically where there is a predominant population of recent Igbo immigrants)[5] Virginia,[6] so much so that some historians have denominated colonial Virginia as “Igbo land.”[6]
With a total of 37,000 Africans that arrived in Virginia from Calabar in the 1700s, 30,000 were Igbo according to Douglas B. Chambers.[6] The Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia also estimates around 38% of captives taken to Virginia were from the Bight of Biafra.[7] Igbo peoples also constituted the majority of enslaved Africans in Maryland.[6]
Chambers has been quoted saying:
"My research suggests that perhaps 60 percent of black Americans have at least one Igbo ancestor..."

 

very interesting.

 

Indeed, very interesting. Glad to see someone is doing a feelgood story coming out of Africa, rather than the usual, poverty, atrocities, war, famine, disease, corruption, natural disaster, ect. stories that dominate any African news story here in the States.

 

:smt023