I was expecting Ghana. I’m not sure why. I know very few Ghanaians and even less about the country. Yet, I thought my African heritage would be rooted there. Instead, it is Nigeria that holds the lion’s share of my African DNA.  Norway and Sweden also surprised me. I was not surprised by England, Scotland, and Ireland that, like Nigeria, came barreling in at over 45 percent, but no one on my mother’s side new of any connections to Norway or Sweden. Yet there they were at another 10percent.

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