My mom and dad are Congolese but I’m 50% Senegalese

Now that I have your attention, this title is not meant to be a joke but really interested to get into the discussion with the diaspora. Both of my parens are born and raised in DRC 🇨🇩. So there is no question that I’m Congolese. I was born in Canada and had never visited Congo. I made it a point in my adult years to visit Congo but also other African countries because I felt one with the continent growing up. I had recently visited Senegal for a month and something spiritual really made it feel like home even before I interacted with people. I had visited at the beginning of Eid so Dakar was fairly quiet and I took a lot of time to myself around the neighbourhood where i stayed. When people returned I was constantly being addressed in wolof, when I answered back in french the surprise and disbelief when i told people I wasn’t Senegalese was consistent. My day to day was either i was approached and spoken to in wolof or my family lineage was questioned. It was very endearing because I really did see the resemblance and what people saw. Many people said i looked djola or sere, or someone who came from a tribe from the casamance region. I was also very intrigued by this because i was told that in the region they stay practice old spirituality and frankly that’s something that has been on my heart and seeking to learn more of in the last 5 years.

This whole paragraph is all to share this question or theory I have about my lineage. I’ve been jokingly saying that I probably have a great grandmother that was just as adventurous as I am and left Senegal and ended up Congo and fell in love and started my current lineage. So now I’m the descendant who is being led back to her home. I would love to read accounts of my family’s story if this idea could be even the slightest bit true.

Anyways I tried to move to Senegal for a few months and it didnt work out the way i would have hoped the first time but something about Senegal keeps calling me back, the relationships i built, i envision my future family growing up there … I don’t know I could keep going