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body-1sg.- (to be) well], I am well' (Alleyne, 1996, pp. 157 et sq.). Dingemanse developed this example extensively in his thesis (2006), alongside a construction found in the north-east of Africa, this time in another African language spoken for over four millenniums, ancient Egyptian: $n t r h^{2} f$, 'god himself literally' [god+bodyhim] - cf. hc.i, hc.k, 'body, me, you, for myself, yourself'. ${ }^{7}$  
Similarly, in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean regions, creole languages offer two main reflexive structures: a co-indexed pronoun with the nominal subject of the sentence and a nominal tower made up of the possessive pronoun + 'body' or 'head' (Alleyne, 1996).  
Alleyne provides some examples: $l$ ap mennen kò-l isi, 'she brings herself here' (Haiti); kreyol se kaz natif natal a kò an nou, 'Creole is our inner self' (Guadeloupe); mo va touye mo-lekor, 'I'm going to kill myself' (Mauritius); or the delightful yo renmen kadav-yo, 'they are in love' (Haiti). No language escapes its humanity; no humanity escapes its body - everybody knows it.  
For the most invisible links binding Africa and the 'other side' to reappear, it was thus enough to allow these languages to be spoken. They were no longer before our eyes but, quite simply, before our ears, like a fleeting blue note from an Ngoni heard on the banks of the Mississippi.  
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