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King Nyoya is known to linguists for his Bamum scripts, an evolutionary series of six scripts he created for the Bamum language at the turn of the 19th century. They are notable for evolving from a pictographic system to a partially alphabetic syllabic script in the space of 14 years, from 1896 to 1910. Bamum type was cast in 1918, but the script fell into disuse around 1931. A project began around 2007 to revive the Bamum script.
Publication accompagnant une exposition au Smithsonian Museum consacrée aux photographies prises par des colons allemands à la cour du roi Njoya entre 1902 et 1915
Christraud M. Geary est anthropologue culturelle; spécialiste de l'iconographie coloniale et en particulier de celle du Cameroun. Elle fut en charge de la conservation du fonds Eliot Elisofon au Smithsonian (280 000 photographies)