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By Badiu Nation Research Project · June 25, 2026

Island-stratified Y-SNP genotyping of 1,257 adult men identifies a majority of West African-associated paternal lineages across Cabo Verde, with a meaningful census-weighting effect.

By Badiu Heritage Project · December 1, 2024

The Badiu paternal line runs father to son from Santiago's interior back to the peoples of Senegambia. A reading of our African lineages — E-M2, haplogroup A, and the L maternal lines — as a map home.

By Badiu Heritage Project · June 7, 2021

Badiu is a Mandinka word. Baadiŋo means kin, relatives — and it is built from baa, mother, and diŋ, child. It came to Santiago with the first Africans brought from Gêba, who used it of one another as a word of belonging.