[ATTILAGLIC]

ON the Southern Pacific coast of 'Colombia' and Northern Pacific coast of Ecuador there's a surname of African origin, it is CARABALI. It is said to be a corruption/or re-saying of the city CALABAR in Nigeria. It is said that these Africans were brought from the port of Calabar and thus given the surname CARABALI. Even till this day when we see the surname CARABALI, a very SSA person is expected behind that surname. I will post pictures of different Carabalis.

Julian Carabali



Erika Julieth Carabali



Alberni CarabalÃ* Yesid Hernández



Julian Andres Carabali Pena



Hector Jhonny Carabali



Tito Torres Carabali



Mauricio Carabali



Jorge Carabali



Hamir Carabali



Hector Carabali



CAICEDO BEDER CARABALI JAIRO



Keila Carabali



Alexander Dominguez Carabali



Clemencia Carabali



MAIRA ALEJANDRA VASQUEZ CARABALI



Ivan Alexis Carabali Hurtado



Veronica Maria Gomez Carabali



Diego Luis Carabali



Elia Larrahondo Carabali- Mayor of Buenos Aires, Cauca



Leidy Patricia Vásquez CarabalÃ*



Humberto Carabali

[Rupeviv]

Other surname for these descendants may be Biafara, Biafra. Colombia and Ecuador are one of the few places with surviving African surnames, African Y-dna must be VERY high among afro colombians, specialy in towns with those surnames.

[mtvlover571]

Wow. They look strongly Nigerian and Central/West African. Its almost like all of the ancestots com frpm the same tribes.

[yatrahnualenu]

Wow. They look strongly Nigerian and Central/West African. Its almost like all of the ancestots com frpm the same tribes.

True, I'm trying to get the perspective of the Nigerians on this forum too to see what they think, if they can still be from Nigeria today.

[KongoSan]

Technically even though they are Carabli by surname they shuold have other African ethnic groups in the mixture, seems like the colombian pacific coast had alot of Togo/Benin/Nigerian influence, as well as Congolese/Angolan. I'd guess most of these people have all those mixtures, however they might sitll be pred. southeast nigerian (Carabli) MAYBE in DNATribes they will be most similar to Igbo which are part of the calabar ethnic groups brouht over as Carabali, if they had Efik's they should as well.

[Attarderb]

Technically even though they are Carabli by surname they shuold have other African ethnic groups in the mixture, seems like the colombian pacific coast had alot of Togo/Benin/Nigerian influence, as well as Congolese/Angolan. I'd guess most of these people have all those mixtures, however they might sitll be pred. southeast nigerian (Carabli) MAYBE in DNATribes they will be most similar to Igbo which are part of the calabar ethnic groups brouht over as Carabali, if they had Efik's they should as well.

Yes, I believe that would be the case genetically but I would like one of the WA posters to say if they can be placed in Nigeria today or not, or do they look too African mixed with various ethnicities to just be one ethnicity phenotypically in SSA today.

[foI3fKWv]

Are there other African surnames besides Carabali?

[DavidShreder]

Are there other African surnames besides Carabali?

Yes I am going to try to make other threads on those eventually posting pics like this one.

[mobiphones]

Yes, I believe that would be the case genetically but I would like one of the WA posters to say if they can be placed in Nigeria today or not, or do they look too African mixed with various ethnicities to just be one ethnicity phenotypically in SSA today.

Ask Gawash. He's lurking somewhere on this forum.

[Beerinkol]

Ask Gawash. He's lurking somewhere on this forum.

Good looking, I just posted the question on his profile page.

[GreefeWrereon]

This is cool MK! I have a 4th great grandmother whose last name was written as Ohenia/Ohene. We think it might be a form of the Akan Ohene or Ohenewaa, which apparently is a name connected to some sort of Chief.

[BriKevin]

This is cool MK! I have a 4th great grandmother whose last name was written as Ohenia/Ohene. We think it might be a form of the Akan Ohene or Ohenewaa, which apparently is a name connected to some sort of Chief.

Yep, wouldn't surprise me. Akans were brought to those British Caribbean colonies. I tell my woman all the time, that she's basically Nigerian and I ask her when she's going to visit her mother country

[peveballery]

I think its very possible that they can be from Calabar, because people from Calabar are a mixture of different ethnic groups due to the towns history.
I gotta research more about the Calabar, all I know is they got some beautiful females over there. Next time I go to Nigeria I definately gotta check it out.

[we0MA4MI]

Wow, coolest thread so far, this is real exchange between NWB's getting to actually learn something.

[somawaima]

Ask Gawash. He's lurking somewhere on this forum.

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yes, they could be Nigerian , Anyday..

Most SSA can actually fit in one place or the other in Nigeria

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Many Calabar port exit slaves, were also from places like Western Cameroon and even the lake Chad area. Some traveled thousands of miles, from their point of capture to their exit ports.

[alfredtaniypnx]

This is cool MK! I have a 4th great grandmother whose last name was written as Ohenia/Ohene. We think it might be a form of the Akan Ohene or Ohenewaa, which apparently is a name connected to some sort of Chief.

Yep, wouldn't surprise me. Akans were brought to those British Caribbean colonies. I tell my woman all the time, that she's basically Nigerian and I ask her when she's going to visit her mother country

In most Caribbean English Creoles, Twi (Akan), Igbo, and Ashanti are the main substrate languages.

[angeldimmon]

In most Caribbean English Creoles, Twi (Akan), Igbo, and Ashanti are the main substrate languages.

In French Antillean Creole, Kikongo and Kimbundu are the main substrate languages.

[Anakattawl]

Veronica Maria Gomez Carabali

This woman reminds me of Venus Williams

[avdddcxnelkaxz]

^true lol

[StevenS]

^true lol

She died two months ago.