Origins of African Slaves in Americas

 

From my understanding:

 

 

From the Southwestern Central Africa region (mostly Angola): Ndungo, Mbundu, Bambo (way more cant name them)

 

Sierra Leone: Temne, Mende, Kru

 

Gold Coast: Ewe, Ga, Fante, Ashante,

 

Nigeria: Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Fulani

 

A little about these people from the top of my head and some sources:

 

Balanta people: Means "those who resist"

 

 

Oral tradition amongst the Balanta has it that they migrated westward from the area that is now Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia to escape drought and wars. Today, the Balanta are mostly found in the south and central regions of Guinea-Bissau.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanta_people


The presence of M1 in Balanta populations supports the earlier suggestion of their Sudanese origin.
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wor...ian-admixture/

 

 

 

They are descendants of the Mali Empire and are Majority Muslim

 

 

 

 As the largest ethnic group in Angola, they make up almost 40 percent of the country's population. Overwhelmingly the Ovimbundu follow Christianity, with roughly equal shares falling to the Catholic Church and to different Protestant denominations-Wiki

 

 

 

Mende people were the ones on the Amistad

 

 

 

Ashante people had a very prominent and succesful West African Kingdom and posed the biggest threat to European colonization. They were well known for their Gold

 

 

 

Fulani are the largest nomadic tribe in the world and they are muslim. They claim origin in East Africa and were very invovled with slave trading and jihads (sometimes being taken as slaves themselves). They were a very dominant tribe and established a Fulani Empire within West Africa.  They are also located in East Africa (Sudan)

 

 

 

 

Hausa people are related to the Fulani people (mostly because the Fulani invaded their area) and they also claim origin in East Africa. They are also Muslim

 

Most Hausa remain in small villages, where they grow crops and raise livestock, including cattle. They speak the Hausa language, an Afro-Asiatic language of the Chadic group.

Between 500 CE and 700 CE Hausa people, who had been slowly moving west from Nubia and mixing in with the local Northern and Central Nigerian population, established a number of strong states in what is now Northern and Central Nigeria and Eastern Niger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_people

 

 

Igbo people:

 

Located in Nigeria...many of them speak English. Traditional Igbo political organization was based on a quasi-democratic republican system of government. In tight knit communities, this system guaranteed its citizens equality-Wiki