Meghan Markle recently revealed that she is 43% Nigerian. The Duchess of Sussex made the bombshell revelation during her discussion with comedians Issa Rae and Ziwe Fumudoh on her new podcast instalment, titled ‘Upending The Angry Black Women Myth’. Meghan discovered about her African heritage after taking a genealogy test ‘a couple years ago’. ”I had my genealogy test done a couple of years ago and I am 43 percent Nigerian”. She stated. It comes after Meghan raised eyebrows last year when she said she was “terrified” during her pregnancy with son Archie in a candid interview with Oprah Winfrey.
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Ziwe asked curiously “No way. This is huge. Igbo, Yoruba, do we know?” Meghan said she is “going to start to dig deeper into all this” in order to learn more about her African heritage. “I’m going to start to dig deeper into all of this because anyone that I’ve told, especially Nigerian women, are just like, what?” Meghan replied. This comes as a surprise to many, as Meghan is typically associated with her British roots. However, it just goes to show that you can never really know where you come from until you do a little digging!