If you are black do you know what afrikan tribe you decended from?

Question

If you are black do you know what afrikan tribe you decended from?

Answer 1

That is a very interesting question.  DNA research is making great strides in this area.  An early president of the United States was thought to have "Black" ancestors, when it was discovered that an area of England people had those genes previously thought only to be in "blacks".  There are many different mysteries like that and that's one of the reasons scientists will never be out of work, there will always be the next thing to research.  I think that the day will come when you can know with some certaintly where your genes come from, in fact it may already be here. (see link below)

Answer 2

No because tribes can mix over time, for all i know i can be from 20 different tribes

Answer 3

I'm not black, but I have discovered a very comprehensive summary of the "Atlantic slave trade" from a Wikipedia link (17 pages).  

Europeans usually bought slaves who had been captured in tribal wars or from Africans who captured other Africans and sold them; sometimes convicts would be sold as slaves because African countries didn't have a prison system.  These captives were brought to coastal ports to be traded for goods.

Europeans bought and shipped slaves to the Western Hemisphere from eight principal locations:

Senegambia (4.7%)

Upper Guinea (4.1%)

Windward Coast (1.8%)

Gold Coast (10.4%)

Bight of Benin (19.7%

Bight of Biafra (4.3%)

West Central Africa (40.8)

Southeast Africa (4.6%)

The slave trade affected over 173 city-states and kingdoms, and slavers transported over 45 distinct ethnic groups to the Americas.  Thus, saying one's ancestors came from Africa is a little bit like saying they came from Europe--a very broad generalization that doesn't begin to describe a cultural identity.  Curiously, only 4.4 percent of all slaves shipped to the New World ended up in British North American and the future United States.