A principal aim of this paper is to show that (1) the Palenquero (Colombia) pronominal system in toto needs to be revised in the direction of greater Africanicity, and (2) speakers of Kikongo must have played a dominant role in the formation of Palenquero. This study offers evidence for the multiple (European, African, and Euro-African) origins of the Palenquero person/number markers. I argue that the traditional etymological analyses of these markers are fundamentally flawed in two respects: First, i- (1sg.), o- (2sg.), and e- (3sg.) — allegedly Spanish-derived pronouns — are actually of African rather than European descent; and second, the genesis of y- ‘I’ involved convergence instead of direct linear descent from a single language (i.e., Spanish yo). This investigation revindicates earlier studies that have sought to emphasize the importance of the African substrate to the evolution of Atlantic contact vernaculars in general.