How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.

Did you know that West Africa is a treasure trove of unique and innovative writing systems, including the fascinating Adlam and N'ko scripts? These creations hold deep cultural significance and ...

The Vai script, developed in the early 19th century by the Vai people of Liberia, is one of the few indigenous African writing systems that have survived into the modern era.

In Africa, writing and graphic writing systems transcribe, transmit and archive knowledge into visual representation. They include pictographs (non-abstract), ideograms ...

The Ge’ez script (also known as fidel) has a two thousand year history in the East African highlands and the Red Sea region. It lives on as the writing system for several modern African languages, ...

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A wooden hunter’s toolbox inscribed with an ancient writing system from Zambia has been making waves on social media. "We've grown up being told that Africans didn't know how to read and write ...

A wooden hunter’s toolbox inscribed with an ancient writing system from Zambia has been making waves on social media. "We've grown up being told that Africans didn't know how to read and write," says ...

A wooden hunter’s toolbox inscribed with an ancient writing system from Zambia has been making waves on social media. "We've grown up being told that Africans didn't know how to read and write ...