A genetic analysis of Igbo samples by The African Genome Variation Project reveals that the Igbo people may have mixed with populations similar to the Khoi-San around 9,000 years ago, a people living today in southern Africa who have the oldest genetic lineage in the word.
This is consistent with archaeological evidence that supports the fact that the Khoi-San once inhabited the area from their present homeland to as far as the western Sahara. ‘The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa”
