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ebembe
eh-beh-MBEH
corpse
French: le cadavre / le corps
Bato bakei kokunda ebembe.
People went to bury the body.
Les gens sont allés enterrer le corps.
Body — the departed, honoured with ceremony. Ebembe is a corpse, the body of one who has died. Death calls the whole family; the ebembe is watched, mourned and buried with song, food and days of gathering.
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