Page 17 - பரகௌ News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Share My fascination with and curiosity about America started at the inchoate stage of my educational career. The elementary and high schools I attended were established by American Baptist missionaries. And in my first semesterof elementary school at age 5 in my hometown in Kwara State, I had an American Baptist missionary kid by the name of David Burkwall in my class. He later left for Jos. But I had not the foggiest inkling that I would have hundreds of blood relatives in America, relatives that I’ll probably never meet physically until I die, courtesy of my mother. My serendipitous discovery of my American cousins (most of whom are Black, a few of whom are white) came about because I did an ancestry DNA test for my mother who visited me here between 2017 and 2018. I did the test not to fish for American relatives (whom I’d never have guessed I had in my wildest dreams) but to resolve a longstanding argument she and I had had about her distant Malian ancestry.

New yorkUnited statesGuinea bissauBurkina fasoKwara stateOgun stateCoted ivoireGreater accraIvory coastIbrahim maguAndreasw massingtitledDavid burkwallFafana fofanaMuhammadu buhariWangara mandinkaTaruwere traore