"I went in search of my roots and had my DNA tested, and I am a Zulu. I feel so at home here," Femalefirst quoted her as saying.

"I hate to tell Oprah this, but she is sorely mistaken," Zulu leader Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi was quoted as saying.

Local historians too believe there are few records the tribe have any connection to the African slave trade in North America. "If there were Zulu people taken as slaves they would have most likely been taken eastwards by Arab traders or to South American colonies. Those who ended up in North America, say in Mississippi where Miss Winfrey comes from, were mostly of West African origin, " a historian was quoted as saying. ANI