Thursday, April 16, 2009

Y-Haplotypes in Africa




Searching for other information on this subject, I found:

Bantu language trees reflect the spread of farming
across sub-Saharan Africa: a maximum-parsimony

Farmers and Their Languages:
The First Expansions


The phylogeography of Y chromosome binary haplotypes and the origins of
modern human populations



The Making of the African mtDNA Landscape


Bantu and European Y-lineages in Sub-Saharan Africa

Map of Africa

Another map of Africa

Yet more, with climate data

One paper I could only find in abstract:

The genetic legacy of western Bantu migrations


  1. hey hey hey big up ma african ancestors (dont know if i spelt that right)

  2. Is it possible that geneticists have been misled by Bantu theorists who created Bantu myth of a bunch of negroes who allegedly left Cameroon and populated the entire sub Saharan Africa? Is there really such a thing as a "BANTU" gene??These so called Bantu are linguistically,culturally,historically,anthropologically and even obviously, genetically diverse.I am a Muntu (sing.of Bantu) from Rwanda living in New York,USA,and I can tell you that when I moved to Ankole in western Uganda,it took me 6 months to learn Runyankore which is close to Runyarwanda.The whole Bantu theory is an embarrassment that needs to be completely discarded like the old hamitic mythology of the old colonial days.You geneticists please do not allow yourselves to be fooled by these self anointed African experts.My favourite account of Bantu genetic mystery is that some geneticists feel that such discrepancies can be explained by the fact that when Bantu started their historic migration,males took one route and females took a different one!
    Thank you and keep up the good work.
    Israel Ntaganzwa

  3. I am afraid our geneticists are basing their research on false "Bantu" theories of the 19nth century European bounty hunters.There is no such a thing as a "Bantu" gene.A Muntu from Cameroon and another from Tanzania are as diverse as a Chinese and an Arab of North Africa,or an English and a Russian.When studying various African community genes,please do so without the word Bantu,hamitic,nilotic and other colonial jungle terms.