King Njoya’s beautiful Shü-mom pictographs

The Bamum script of Cameroon was devised at the end of the 19th century following a dream in which the Bamum King Njoya was inspired to provide a writing system for his people by creating a series of pictographs. The script was something of a communal production; the Bamum people were reportedly invited to supply the King with a number of simple symbols, from which he chose more than 500 to use in the Bamum script.

Shü-mom pictographs

Sources:

http://www.anotherafrica.net/art-culture/typography-language-writing-systems-afrikan-alphabets ;

http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_detail&key=Bamu

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