Nowadays, a lot of people assume that anyone with blue or other non-brown eyes is not of African ancestry and that anyone who is must be wearing coloured contacts.
Some people have accused blue-eyed Africans of having evil intentions. Others are curious as to whether or not Africans with blue eyes have poorer focus, vision, or hearing.
Whether or not any of these concerns are justified is difficult to say. Contrary to popular assumption, however, blue eyes are not just a trait of Asians or Europeans; there are also some Africans who have them, and there are a number of reasons for this.
A Brief History of Africans with Blue Eyes
Early research by the University of Copenhagen involved 800 blue-eyed men and women from different countries. The study’s participants all shared the same DNA sequence for blue eyes, the result of a genetic mutation that took place around 10,000 years ago, according to the researchers. “We all had brown eyes originally”, claims Professor Hans Eiberg of the university’s Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.
The ability to grow brown eyes has basically been ‘shut off’ in those of us who are born with them due to a genetic mutation that altered the OCA2 gene in our DNA.
What Causes the Blue Eyes
OCA2, a gene that produces melanin, was once known as the P gene, according to specialists from Medline Plus. The pigment called melanin is what gives the skin, hair, and eyes their colour.
Researchers have discovered a relationship between a genetic mutation and an increase in melanin synthesis. Due to a lack of melanin, blue eyes rather than brown ones are produced.
According to studies by Edmund Custers, a clinical researcher who has spent more than ten years writing about human anatomy and physiology, virtually every blue-eyed person today has the same DNA mutation that came from the same source.
The exceptions to this rule include health issues like Waardenburg syndrome and ocular albinism, which may affect pigmentation and up to six different eye colours.
Blonde hair and blue eyes allegedly emerged as a result of men and women dating based on a particular physical characteristic that wasn’t always related to fitness, claims Afritorial. However, it is crucial to emphasise that unless specifically stated otherwise, blue eyes are not evil or demonic.
Source: face2faceafrica
Interesting read! Black really is beautiful.