Root

The migration of Yoruba people all over the world has led to a spread of the Yoruba culture across the globe. Yoruba people have historically been spread around the globe by the combined forces of the Atlantic slave trade [1] and voluntary self migration. Their exact population outside Africa is unknown, but researchers have established that the majority of the African component in the ancestry of African Americans is of Yoruba and/or Yoruba-like extraction.[2]
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1. Nicholas J. Saunders (2005). The Peoples of the Caribbean: Encyclopedia of Archaeology and Traditional Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 209.
2. Fouad Zakharia; Analabha Basu; Devin Absher; Themistocles L. Assimes; Alan S. Go; Mark A. Hlatky; Carlos Iribarren; Joshua W. Knowles; Jun Li; Balasubramanian Narasimhan; Stephen Sydney; Audrey Southwick; Richard M. Myers; Thomas Quertermous; Neil Risch; Hua Tang (22 December 2009). “Characterizing the admixed African ancestry of African Americans” (PDF). Genome Biology. 10(12): R141.