Daughter: ...and it was so interesting because his ancestors are from Nigeria -- all the way in Africa, just imagine! -- and he talked about the traditional food and the music and the geography...

Me: You have ancestors from Nigeria.

Daughter: ...and the slide show... Ummm... wut?

Me: You have ancestors from Nigeria.

Daughter: Huh? Ha ha, okaaaay, mom joke, anyways...

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Specifically Nigeria or just Africa in general from a long time ago?

Nigeria and Cameroon, mostly.

But a long time ago. Like 200 years or something. The furthest we can research back is a girl who arrived in South Carolina in the late 1700s, from Congo.