Which African countries do most black Americans trace their roots back to?

Question

I know thecoastal Ivory Coast ,Nigeria,Ghana,Cameroon and Togo. But which of those countries do a lot of black Americans trace back to? Just curious

Answer 1

Some will say the majority of Africans kinapped into slavery came from the western part of Africa...but who can say really, without genetic testing?  There are so many countries on the continent of Africa...we come from all over.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Where slaves to North America (USA) originated

Angola:23%

Nigeria 20%

Democratic Republic of Congo 20%

Ghana: 10.3%

Republic of Congo 5.3%

Cameroon: 4%

Senegal: 3%

Benin: 3%

Equatorial Guinea: 2%

Mozambique 1%

Guinea 1.4%

Togo 1.1%

Madagascar: 1.6%

Sierra Leone: 1%

Cote d' Ivoire: 1%

The Gambia: 0.8%

Liberia 0.7%

Gabon: 0.6%

Guinea-Bissau 0.2%

In fact this is West Africa, Central Africa and Eastern Africa mostly Central Africa.

Angola is where most black Africans were shipped to North America followed by Nigeria and DMR Congo

Most prominent ethnic groups in Black Americans in order

Bakongo (Angola)- http://bp0.blogger.com/_BDZf3uHsqgk/RuGX...

Igbo (Nigeria)- http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41...

Mbundu (Angola)- http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n271/...

Yoruba (Nigeria)- http://www.afrikandance.com/pictures/jod...

Luba (DMR Congo)- https://interactiveculturalmedia.sslrx.c...

Your answer would be:

Angola Nigeria and DMR Congo

But remeber around 100% of black Americans are a mixture of more than one African country of ancestry and over 60% of Black Americans have other races in their blood.

Example

Chris Tucker' ancestry

83 percent Sub-Saharan African

10 percent Native American

7 percent European

His African ancestry is from Angola & Cameron

Answer 4

The African countries that we can trace our roots back are in the west coast of Africa such as Senegal, Gambia, Guinea. But I traced my ancestors back to the Ivory Coast in Africa.

Answer 5

rThere are several impossibilities: one: the number of slaves transported from West Africa to the United States: how many of them arrived after the dead were thrown into the ocean, the origin of site, when the frontiers were not remarked

and the case that they were transported from one geographical site to another by the arabs. Besides you must remember the lack of census or inscriptions on civil registers and the mixture of tribes that didn`t belong to an specific place. So the most aproximated thing you could do is assign a place to an specific Empire, that dominated what we know today as Ivory Coast, Nigeria, etc.