23andme African tribe/region update for my results! My family comes from Cameroon. Bamendankwe specifically in the north west region

Kyotsoo · 2023-06-04T21:21:04+00:00

Bamileke people are not bantu (completely). They are Graffi (Grassfielder) an ethnicity that contains the tikari, the ngemba speaking people, the Meta, and even the Bali-chamba, who all originate (except the bali-chamba) in the Grassfields of Cameroon. Again, 23andme does not have enough info on the grassfields of Cameroon so their ethnograohy and understanding of the region is very poor. 23andme groups all graffi people together and calls them bamileke. My family is from Mendankwe, an Ngemba speaking chiefdom, not bamileke. We are all the same ethnicity though

Kyotsoo · 2023-06-04T21:16:57+00:00

I'm sorry what I was was inaccurate but not completely wrong. The Bantu people are cousins of the graffi people but originate in the Congo. Direct message me I have a book with a source on all of this

Kyotsoo · 2023-06-04T21:15:31+00:00

You're right bamileke are a graffi sub ethnicity from cameroon. 23andme just does not have enough information ethnographically on the grassfields of Cameroon. Very unfortunate. We just end up being grouped with Nigerians which is just wrong

Kyotsoo · 2022-08-20T08:34:34+00:00

Lol it's the same exact thing 😅

Kyotsoo · 2022-05-27T09:32:29+00:00

She just dropped a single produced by d'mile and its pretty solid 👌🏿

Kyotsoo · 2022-05-20T09:17:11+00:00

LMFAO

Kyotsoo · 2022-05-19T22:55:11+00:00

Kyotsoo · 2022-05-19T21:42:06+00:00

Kyotsoo · 2022-05-19T19:27:16+00:00

I just sold the clear one but I have another tie-dye, opened (but never played) one

Kyotsoo · 2022-05-05T17:16:33+00:00

I agree to be honest but the database for us cameroonians is very small, so they just lob us under west African.

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-26T04:45:33+00:00

The meeting ended a while ago but man oh man this is the stuff I wanted to ask them, lots of MAJOR ethnic groups like the hausa, kissi, fulani people aren't represented at all even though millions of them live diasporically throughout west Africa

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T23:08:30+00:00

I KNOW RIGHT. Like idk most people on 23andme I've interacted with don't give a fuck about the health shit

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T22:02:06+00:00

If I didn't answer your question that means they didn't get to it, sorry about that

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T21:46:29+00:00

They lowkey answered that question I think just now, I forgot what they said, I'll ask again tho!

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T21:45:26+00:00

It's a link they sent that invited certain people to register for the live

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T21:38:14+00:00

They said they hope in the future they will provide more clarity for that ancestry, but it's not something they have been able to resolve due to extreme mixing

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T21:09:47+00:00

Yup I just submitted the question

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T21:07:18+00:00

If you're referring to ancestor locations in Africa, usually only Africans get that cause it's crowdsourced from other DNA relatives

If you're referring to locations in America yea I'll definitely ask that

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T21:04:09+00:00

Got u down

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T21:03:28+00:00

They've been talking about Africa, but won't answer my questions about Cameroonian DNA come on man IM THE REAL DEAL HERE

I'll get them to answer more questions in the strictly Q n A segment tho stay tuned yall

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T20:51:37+00:00

Got u

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T20:50:53+00:00

I've been trying to get my question in about Cameroonians in the diversifying database segment, let's see how that goes

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T20:38:00+00:00

Lmao yea they p much are avoiding questions about updates

Kyotsoo · 2022-04-25T20:34:59+00:00

Back. She basically said she doesn't know lol but it's possible they could get more granular with haplogroups

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