The wife of Prince Harry, Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has revealed that she is 43% Nigerian.
Maghan made this known during the latest episode of her podcast, Archetypes, while having a conversation with Senegalese-American actress and comedian Issa Rae, Nigerian-American comedian and writer Ziwe Fumudoh, and professor Emily Bernards,
The Duchess of Sussex told her listeners that she took a genealogy test which revealed that she is 43% Nigerian.
She said:
“I just had my genealogy done a couple years ago,”
“I’m 43% Nigerian”
Ziwe shouted: “No way!”.
Ziwe, who is Nigerian-American, then asks:
“Are you serious? This is huge. Igbo, Yoruba, do we know?”
The Duchess of Sussex: “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?”