What does it mean when someone is of african and indian descent?

Question

does it mean one of his parent his african and one is indian?

Answer 1

yeah or their ancestors were idk

Answer 2

there are indian people who were born in africa and this would make them african and indian or one was african(black) and one was indian would also do it so be sure to ask the parents

Answer 3

yes

Answer 4

no it simply means they have Indian and African ancestry it docent mean they have to have one Indian parent one African it that were the case they would be half caste