People: INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED FEMALE CELEBRITIES WHO FOUND OUT THEY HAVE AFRICAN ORIGINS

THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE, WHICH SAW NEARLY 12.5 MILLION AFRICANS SHIPPED TO THE NEW WORLD, STRIPPED MOST ENSLAVED AFRICANS OF THEIR IDENTITY AND WITHIN 400 YEARS ERASED THEIR HISTORY. BUT THANKS TO ADVANCES IN SCIENCE, MANY BLACK CELEBRITIES NOW KNOW WHICH PARTS OF AFRICA THEIR ANCESTORS CAME FROM. SO HERE ARE 3 INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED FEMALE CELEBRITIES WHO FOUND OUT THEY HAVE AFRICAN ORIGINS.

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Vanessa Williams Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American actress, singer, producer and model, born March 18, 1963 in New York, Bronx. A few years ago, she discovered that her ancestors came from Cameroon and Ghana. Oprah Winfrey It was in 2005 that Oprah, through a DNA test, discovered that she descended from Kpelle (Liberia), Bamileke (Cameroon) and Zambia. The first African American woman to become a billionaire does indeed have African origins. Imany Born on April 5, 1979 in the town of Martigues in France, the singer Imany, whose legal name is Nadia Mladjao, is from the Comoros. During an interview with JDD, the French singer provided more information on her true origins, “I come from the Comoros, even if I was born in Martigues. My mother told me her…

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