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[quote]Yes, Amy Chua ("Tiger Mom") wrote about Nigerians in her most recent book. This is from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/opinion/sunday/what-drives-success.html?_r=0

There are some black and Hispanic groups in America that far outperform some white and Asian groups. Immigrants from many West Indian and African countries, such as Jamaica, Ghana, and Haiti, are climbing America’s higher education ladder, but perhaps the most prominent are Nigerians. Nigerians make up less than 1 percent of the black population in the United States, yet in 2013 nearly one-quarter of the black students at Harvard Business School were of Nigerian ancestry; over a fourth of Nigerian-Americans have a graduate or professional degree, as compared with only about 11 percent of whites.

More power to them. Impressive![/quote]

[quote]+1. [b]If only AAs could learn from actual As[/b].[/quote]

Ironically, most [b]AAs[/b] came from Nigeria and West Africa before subjugation to America and centuries of slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, lack of civil and voting rights, unjust imprisonment, forced and unequal educational opportunities, Tea Party members and individuals the ilk of a Cruz, Trump, and the KKK.  [b]As[/b] still deal with the latter but bypassed the former.   [/quote]

According to Henry Louis Gates' research (AA History Professor at Harvard), most AA are of Senegambian (modern day Senegal and Gambia) and/or Angolan origin.

[b]One of the biggest surprises about the history of the slave trade to the United States is the high percentage of our ancestors who were shipped to this country from Angola. African Americans have traditionally thought of Ghana and Senegal as our most common ancestral homes on the African continent, but almost half of all of the slaves arriving in this country were shipped here from two sources: Senegambia, yes, but also, Angola.

[/b]The slave trade from Angola to the New World began in the 16th century and continued (illegally) until 1860. It is estimated that, incredibly, there were more than 5 million slaves who came to the Western Hemisphere from Angola; more than half went to Brazil. Far fewer, in terms of absolute numbers, came to the U.S. (since the U.S. received dramatically fewer numbers of slaves than did Brazil, or even Haiti or Cuba or Jamaica, for instance). But the percentage from Angola was comparatively high.

According to historians Linda Heywood and John Thornton, we know that the first "20 and odd" Africans imported into Virginia in 1619 came from Angola. In fact, [b]according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, of the 388,000 Africans who landed in the various ports in North America over the entire course of the slave trade, 24 percent, or about 93,000 of them, came from Angola. In other words, an African American has about a one in four chance of being descended from these Central Africans.
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Source: http://www.theroot.com/articles/world/2013/06/where_did_slaves_come_from_in_africa_angola_is_one_place.html

Another surprise, [b]Well over 90 percent of slaves from Africa were imported into the Caribbean and South America [/b](http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=11&psid=3807).[/quote]

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