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Jombii Jamborii Maggie Nelson and that too is somethingJeremy Jacob Peretz and Joan Cambridge Mayfield Jombii Jamborii is a wild party. In Guyanas Creole language, Creolese (or Kriiyaliiz), jumbi (or jombii) can mean wild or of low status. These pejorative attributes have been similarly ascribed to Creolese through a coloniality of language centuries in the making. Jumbi, however, are also cherished and feared ancestral memory, often understood, if reductively, as ghosts or spirits offering both the