Does any african american have a great greandmother that was african?

Question

Does any african american have a great greandmother that was african?

Answer 1

EVERY SINGLE AFRICAN AMERICAN has an ancestor from Africa, somewhere in their background.  That is the reason that they are called African Americans to begin with.  

Nothing has changed.  The fact is that you STILL will not know anything about Herman, until you decide to find out who your own ancestors were.  You will never know a darn thing about you, by asking about some celebrities or anyone else.

Answer 2

Yes I do.

Answer 3

american

Answer 4

Most African Americans are the descendants of slaves forcibly brought to the Americas.  The slave trade ended in 1808, a generation or two before any great grandmothers could be born.  

From the 1860s to 1921, however, immigrants from the Cape Verde region of West Africa sought employment with the whaling industry in Massachusetts, so a small percentage of African Americans could have great grandmothers who might have come to New England at this point in time.

Finally, 1.7 million people are descended from recent immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 57 percent of these arriving between 1990 and 2000.  Immigrants born in Africa make up about 1.6 percent of the United States population.  Perhaps the most famous descendant of a relatively recent immigrant to the US is, of course, the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (b. 1961).

Barack Obama, Sr., was a foreign-exchange student from Kenya at the University of Hawaii at Manoa when he meet and married Ann Dunham, an American of European descent who was born in Wichita, Kansas.