{"id":1234326,"date":"2022-10-25T18:51:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/meghan-markle-reveals-that-she-is-43-nigerian\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T18:51:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:51:30","slug":"meghan-markle-reveals-that-she-is-43-nigerian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/meghan-markle-reveals-that-she-is-43-nigerian\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle Reveals That She Is 43% Nigerian \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2>The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has opened up on her genetic heritage, revealing that she is 43% Nigerian.<\/h2>\n<p>Markle made this known in the latest episode of her podcast, Archetypes, where she expressed her desire to learn more about her roots, Mirrors reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the episode, Markle discussed with American actress Issa Rae, Nigerian-American writer Ziwe Fumudoh, and professor Emily Bernards.<\/p>\n<p>The Duchess of Sussex then stated that she took a genealogy test which revealed that she is 43% Nigerian.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cI just had my genealogy done a couple of years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When her guests asked her to share what the results entailed, the Duchess said, \u201cI\u2019m 43% Nigerian,\u201d to the shock of Ziwe, who responded, \u201cNo way!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Ziwe further asked, \u201cAre you serious? This is huge. Igbo, Yoruba, do we know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Duchess of Sussex then answered, \u201cI\u2019m going to start to dig deeper into all of this because anyone that I\u2019ve told, especially Nigerian women, are just like, what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The podcast revelation was the first time Meghan opened up about her ancestral background on the public stage.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has opened up on her genetic heritage, revealing that she is 43% Nigerian. Markle made this known in the latest episode of her podcast, Archetypes, where she expressed her desire to learn more about her roots, Mirrors reported on Tuesday. In the episode, Markle discussed with American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1234328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27999,28000,1515,51],"class_list":["post-1234326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-markle","tag-meghan","tag-nigerian","tag-reveals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}