Botswana is the most homogenous country in Africa

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Apollo

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Guess what, it's also one of the richest... GDP per capita PPP at $18,146 - higher than Brazil and Thailand.

Diversity is not a strength.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29706352

''Large-scale, population-based genomic studies have provided a context for modern medical genetics. Among such studies, however, African populations have remained relatively underrepresented. The breadth of genetic diversity across the African continent argues for an exploration of local genomic context to facilitate burgeoning disease mapping studies in Africa. We sought to characterize genetic variation and to assess population substructure within a cohort of HIV-positive children from Botswana-a Southern African country that is regionally underrepresented in genomic databases. Using whole-exome sequencing data from 164 Batswana and comparisons with 150 similarly sequenced HIV-positive Ugandan children, we found that 13%-25% of variation observed among Batswana was not captured by public databases. Uncaptured variants were significantly enriched (p = 2.2 × 10-16) for coding variants with minor allele frequencies between 1% and 5% and included predicted-damaging non-synonymous variants. Among variants found in public databases, corresponding allele frequencies varied widely, with Botswana having significantly higher allele frequencies among rare (<1%) pathogenic and damaging variants. Batswana clustered with other Southern African populations, but distinctly from 1000 Genomes African populations, and had limited evidence for admixture with extra-continental ancestries. We also observed a surprising lack of genetic substructure in Botswana, despite multiple tribal ethnicities and language groups, alongside a higher degree of relatedness than purported founder populations from the 1000 Genomes project. Our observations reveal a complex, but distinct, ancestral history and genomic architecture among Batswana and suggest that disease mapping within similar Southern African populations will require a deeper repository of genetic variation and allelic dependencies than presently exists.''
 
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More likely 70%-75%.

And there will be too much diversity within ethnic Somalis.

Ethnic Somalis are actually 90% or higher. The 85% is a Wiki bullshit.

Anything higher than 80% is still considered homogeneous but if we get rid of Bantus and send them back to Southeast Africa. Would you still consider Somalia not homogeneous?
 

Apollo

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Ethnic Somalis are actually 90% or higher. The 85% is a Wiki bullshit.

That is still considered homogeneous but if we get rid of Bantus and send them back to Southeast Africa. Would you still consider Somalis not homogeneous?

Go to the South.

You Somalilanders never visit South Somalia.

My alt-right views developed out of visiting that region.
 
Ethnic Somalis are actually 90% or higher. The 85% is a Wiki bullshit.

Anything higher than 80% is still considered homogeneous but if we get rid of Bantus and send them back to Southeast Africa. Would you still consider Somalia not homogeneous?
Don't say that sxb. Trolling aside Somali Bantus are miskeen wallahi. My ayeeyo had a lot of them as friends they're good people
 

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Go to the South.

You Somalilanders never visit South Somalia.

My alt-right views developed out of visiting that region.
Stop the fear mongering. For ethnic Somalis to make up only 70 % of Somalia, that would imply that Bantus are 65 % of Southern Somalia’s population.
 

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Stop the fear mongering. For ethnic Somalis to make up only 70 % of Somalia, that would imply that the Bantu population are 65 % of Southern Somalia.

My criteria of ethnic Somali = no admixture with Oromos, Benadiris, or Bantus. That cohort may be in the 60% perhaps.
 
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