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In a study which was carried out by consumer genetics company 23andMe which involved the DNA of 50,281 people of African descent in the United States, Latin America, and Western Europe, it was revealed that Nigeria was the most common country of origin for testers from the United States, the French Caribbean, and the British Caribbean.
In Nigeria, for example, remittances from Nigerians in the United States to Nigeria totaled to $6.1 billion in 2012, approximately 3% of Nigeria's GDP. [15] The important role of remittances in improving the lives of family members in the United States has led to both migration and migrants remaining in the United States.
In October 1976, Nigeria rejected the Anglo–American proposal for a Rhodesian settlement, [22] and, in March 1977, the New York Times correspondent for West Africa, John Darnton, was arrested in Lagos and then expelled from Nigeria, amid continued official and public paranoia about American spies.
The post did not come from Trump’s official account. Fact Check: Trump has announced that his nominee for FBI Director is Kash Patel in a Truth Social post, Fox News reported.
The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. [50] The African populations in the Americas are descended from haplogroup L genetic groups of native Africans.
The first Yoruba people who arrived to the United States were imported as slaves from Nigeria and Benin during the Atlantic slave trade. [2] [3] This ethnicity of the slaves was one of the main origins of present-day Nigerians who arrived to the United States, along with the Igbo.
American + Sāmoa: The CIA World Factbook says "The name Samoa is composed of two parts, 'sa', meaning sacred, and 'moa', meaning center, so the name can mean Holy Center; alternately, it can mean 'place of the sacred moa bird' of Polynesian mythology." [113] "American" is ultimately derived from Amerigo Vespucci. [114]
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