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\”When billionaire media producer Oprah Winfrey took a DNA test for the PBS show African American Lives a few years back, she learned that her DNA had three exact matches — with the Kpelle people, who lived in western Africa in what’s now Liberia; the Bamileke people in Cameroon; and a Bantu-speaking tribe in Zambia.
Like many African Americans whose genealogy is difficult to trace beyond slavery, Oprah knew little about her ancestry. She was born in Mississippi and on a previous African American Livesprogram, had learned that an ancestor started a school for black children after the Civil War (hearing this brought her to tears).
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Harvard professor and current host of Finding Your Roots, has written about why Oprah’s DNA shows such diversity within Africa. In his book Finding Oprah’s Roots: Finding Yours, he points out that over the millennia of Africa’s history, tribes migrated across the continent or were taken captive in wars; in other words, there was a lot of movement, as happens with all peoples …\”
Read the entire article: http://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/2014/05/27/the-surprising-facts-oprah-winfrey-learned-about-her-dna/?o_xid=60833&o_lid=60833&o_sch=Content+Marketing
