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Based on DNA studies, an estimated 80 percent of African Americans (about 35 million) could have some Igbo or Hausa ancestry.

Since the advent of multi-party democracy in March 1999, the former Nigerian head-of-state Olusegun Obasanjo has made numerous appeals, especially to young Nigerian professionals in the United States, to return to Nigeria to help in its rebuilding effort.In the colonies, slavers tried to dissuade the practice of traditional tribal customs.They also sometimes mixed people of different ethnic groups together to make it more difficult for them to communicate and band together in rebellion.While this was happening, there were several military coups, interspersed with brief periods of civilian rule.The instability resulted in many Nigerian professionals emigrating, especially doctors, lawyers and academics, who found it difficult to return to Nigeria..