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African Ancestry and U.S.-based African Embassies help deepen ancestral connections of DNA-traced descendents of Africa
Black PR Wire) – Washington, DC (August 2013) – U.S. Based African Embassies have tapped a fertile pipeline of African Americans with interests in their African homeland countries.
Through African Ancestry (AfricanAncestry.com), the pioneers of DNA-based ancestry tracing for people of African descent, newly discovered descendants enjoy ‘diplomatic relations’ with specialized trips to Africa; information exchange from their African countries of origin; and direct access to African Ambassadors in the U.S., including embassy-sponsored national celebrations of their African homelands.
“Our partnerships with African embassies are perhaps some of the most vital because they offer a well-spring of enriching resources closely linked to African ancestries,” said Gina Paige, co-founder and president of African Ancestry.
“Our goal is to establish relationships with every Western and Central African embassy represented in the U.S., particularly those where there are high incidences of shared ancestries discovered such as Nigeria, Liberia and Guinea-Bissau.”
African Ancestry currently works with Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Gabon among others to strengthen connections to Africa and African American communities across the U.S.
Partnering embassies gain a credible ally in African Ancestry for cross-cultural education, tourism, investments and philanthropy in their respective countries.
“African Ancestry’s commitment to helping people enhance the way they view Africa is awe-inspiring. Thousands of African American families now zealously identify with their Cameroonian roots,” said Joseph Charles Foe Atangana, Ambassador to Cameroon of the United States. “Their pioneering work has taken a progressive role in the African diaspora and created a reinvigorated pipeline of enlightenment between America and Africa,” he added.
