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Is it possible for an African (Malawian) to have Arab ancestry!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Yes, mainly if they have links with the Yao (who are Muslim and were the first to deal with Arab merchants), Swahili, or if , as Maravi bantu, where captured by Yao bantu and sold to Arabs!.

See: http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/WaYao
See: http://www!.zum!.de/whkmla/region/southafr!.!.!.

There are also many of the so called Arab Swahili, populations of coast dwellers (Swahili, in bantu) arrived in Malawi too via Zanzibar in the 8th century that later mixed with local population and started using kiswahili as language!.
Check this excerpt from wikipedia ( http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Swahili_peo!.!.!. : "The Swahili are unique Bantu inhabitants of the East African Coast mainly from Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique!. They are mainly united by culture and under the mother tongue of Kiswahili, a Bantu language!.[2] This also extends to Arab, Persian, and other migrants who reached the coast some believe as early as the 7th-8th c!. CE, and mixed with the local people there, providing considerable cultural infusion and numerous loan words from Arabic and Persian!.[3] Archaeologist, Felix Chami notes the presence of Bantu settlements straddling the East African coast as early as the beginning of the 1st millennium!. They evolved gradually from the 6th century onward to accommodate for an increase in trade (mainly with Arab merchants), population growth, and further centralized urbanization; developing into what would later become known as the Swahili City-States!."

EDIT note for tat90sgirl: well we all come from that Lucy found in Ethiopia, or at least we all come from that area!. Genetically we have no differences!. Meanwhile family names are something more linked to culture so it could be interesting to rebuild a piece of recent history of your familyWww@QuestionHome@Com

Yes!. Absolutely!.
There are people in sub-saharan Africa who can trace their family tree back 1000 years, often to a partriarch who is a WHITE guy with an Arabic name! The reason is that when Arabs brought Islam to much of Africa, they also brought writing and a culture that spanned from Spain to Persia!.
Some of them stayed and married women in the local population!.
Recently, DNA studies have shown that the family trees are accurate!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Honey!.!.!. You don't seem to realize that all of humanity!.!.!. from the first to the last!.!.!. is a total whore!

Humans from time immemorial have screwed their way across the globe until there is no such thing as a "Pure Bread" ANYTHING any more~!

99% of blacks have some white in them!.!.!.
99% of whites have some african in them!.!.!.

Middle Eastern!.!.!. French!.!.!. German!.!.!. Mexican!.!.!. Spanish!.!.!.

The WHOLE HUMAN RACE is nothing but a grab-bag of genetic party favors as our ancestors screwed their way around the globe!

The ONLY people on earth that are not as mixed as the rest of us are some VERY VERY isolated tribes in Africa, south America, and a big chunk of Asia!.!.!.

The rest of us are ALLLLLL just "Mutts" and no matter how much you might want to deny it!.!.!. The genes don't lie!.!.!.

Hell!.!.!. They did a DNA analysis on Thomas Jefferson and discovered that HE was primarily of Middle Eastern decent!!

Yeah!.!.!. One of the founders of the US!.!.!. A 'white guy' that was in to black chicks!.!.!. Yeah!.!.!. Him!.!.!. He was mainly Middle Eastern with some European thrown in!.!.!.

Between the Greek/Roman slave trade!.!.!. The African IN AFRICA slave trade!.!.!. The European Slave Trade!.!.!. The Middle Eastern Slave Trade!.!.!. The Asian Slave Trade!.!.!. The South American Slave Trade!.!.!. The Nordic Slave Trade!.!.!. Native American to Native American to South American!.!.!.

From the humans with a Wander-Lust that makes them the fist of their race to meet the various tribes and civilizations around the globe!.!.!.

The raping!.!.!. The pillaging!.!.!. The Kidnappings!.!.!. The "Girl falls in love with a boy one night at the dance" days!.!.!.

We are ALL just 'mutts' and anyone that denies that in the face of the Genetic History of our species is just willful ignorant and that is sad!.!.!.

It isn't just POSSIBLE for an African to have Arab Ancestry!.!.!. If they DIDN'T I would be surprised!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

BERRY BERRY LIKELY MY DEAR!.

I mean if i can be related to people who share d same surname as me who were native american alaskan indian,nigerian,oriental,turkish,swedish and errrr russian!!

I dont understand this worlddd!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

it's possible that Ethiopians and Somalians have Arab Ancestry i don't know if Malawians have Arab Ancestry they might have it could be possibleWww@QuestionHome@Com

duh!. long ago, the north of africa was islam and so the populations of that carried down south!. like morrocans speak arabic that language carried backWww@QuestionHome@Com