The widely accessible research to support connections from Asia to Africa are immediately linked to African slaves. “Movement of Africans to South Asia was fuelled by the slave trade. An estimated 12.5 million Africans were moved across the Sahara, Red Sea and the Indian Ocean to unfamiliar lands where they were re-rooted. But this movement was over a millennium, from 900 AD to 1900 AD” or “A few present-day populations in South Asia, including the Siddis from western India and the Makranis from Pakistan, are considered to descend from African slaves.” The scientific research to support connections from Africa to Asia shows up as convoluted and an offshoot of a debated ‘Out of Africa’ theory which is that Homo sapiens developed first in Africa and then spread around the world between 100 and 200,000 years ago, superseding all other hominid species. The implication of this argument is that all modern people are ultimately of African descent. The articles that support this are offset with jarring imagery and portrayals of Neanderthals as well as evolution involving animals. The simplified version that explains an hypothesis of connection of South Asian and African genetics that pre-date African slaves is from The National Library of Medicine, “the most reasonable scenario for the peopling of South Asia is an Upper Paleolithic event (i.e., the major expansion of modern humans out of Africa through the Levant [Lahr and Foley 1994]), from which the current Indian gene pool is derived.” Still, it is concluded that there is not convincing genetic evidence that supports this. In conclusion, for now…is what unites South Asian & African genetically is, slavery? Keep researching.