DRAKE REVEALS NIGERIAN ANCESTRY

Canadian rapper and Grammy award recipient Aubrey Graham, popularly known as Drake, recently disclosed that he may have Nigerian ancestry following the results of his father's DNA ancestry test.

The test provides information about genetic ethnicity that goes beyond what can be learned from relatives or historical documentation.

Drake posted on Instagram the ancestry results of his father, Dennis Graham, which revealed that he is mostly of Nigerian descent. In excitement, the rapper captioned the post, "This is my dad’s results does this mean I’m a Naija man finally?"

Drake is among several black people in the diaspora who have uncovered their Nigerian roots through DNA testing. Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, also discovered that she has 43 percent Nigerian ancestry, while American rapper Lil Wayne claims to have 53 percent Nigerian ancestry.

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