Bamum script. Book written in the a-k-a-u-ku alphabet invented by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people of Cameroon at the turn of the 20th century.

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Bamum script. Book written in the a-k-a-u-ku alphabet invented by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people of Cameroon at the turn of the 20th century. The alphabet consists of 80 glyphs, including numerals. Under French rule (from 1919) of the Cameroon, teaching of the alphabet was banned and many books and printing presses were destroyed. After independence (in 1960) surviving scripts were collected and teaching of the alphabet was reinstated.

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