Are/were there any e.asians in africa?

Question

I recently found out that I have asian blood (chinese, korean, japanese) which I find hard to believe since I don't recall any asians living in somalia lolz, I know I have arab blood, but where could the asian blood appear from?

plz and thanks.

Answer 1

idk

Answer 2

Quite a few Asians came there a while ago. There have always been a small percentage of Asians in almost every country in Africa. You will be seeing a lot more Asians there as migrant workers too, seeing as how China is doing all this investing in Africa's infrastsucture.

Answer 3

Chinese admiral Zheng He lead Chinese voyages of discovery to Africa. His ships reached the Cape of Good hope. The voyages were made between 1405 and 1430. Reportedly the East coast of Africa still has people that appear Chinese and have some traces of Chinese culture.

A hundred years before this,  Marco Polo traveled to China by land. The "Silk Road" No doubt people came West on it. Cleopatra of Egypt is known to have worn silk and silk is found in even earlier Egyptian tombs

By 1500 there were numerous nations trading through the Red sea, coast of Africa and Indian Ocean. With trade came the movement of people.

No doubt your "Asian blood" represents the world-wide movement of people. It doesn't have to be someone living today but an ancestor of yours.

Answer 4

Really.

It could be from anywhere. Maybe one of your ancestors was an immigrant to East Africa long ago. Was this a mtdna test or autosomal dna test, that said you were part Asian.  Who knows the people might have come from India or Melanesia. I know some Habeshas, and they generally marry other Habeshas. But a few do marry other ethnicities, especially when they travel abroad.

I have met Habeshas who are partly Asian, but that is because their   black Ethiopian mothers married Chinese, or Japanese men recently. The kids look completely Asian,  except they have Ethiopian coloring and curly hair.

Family heritage has alot of twists and turns.

I took an autosomal dna test recently.  Mind you, my family has never left Holland until recently. And there is not a single brunette in the family, except my adopted Eritrean  cousin. But my ancestry came back partially North African. Black North African. I had always suspected Dutch people were descended from  black Northern Africans because we can still tan so dark, when we get sun. There are alot of people in Europe who have blonde, red, and dark hair but they get bad sun burns. But not me.

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By the way, all people spread out from East Africa.  Maybe it's vice versa? The dna tags that look Asian came from Somalia?  It would make sense that the oldest African people can  have everyone's dna traced back to them. Like Ethiopians, everyone in the universe can trace a little bit of ancestry back to them. Sure we all, mutated a little when we left Africa (Ethiopia) but since we are all people, we can trace alot of heritage back to the oldest people.

Answer 5

Yes.  They actually made it to Madagascar about 6000 years ago by boat.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5460.ht...