The History of the N’ko Alphabet and Its Role in Mande Transnational Identity Words As Weapons

Free Download Dianne White Oyler, "The History of the N’ko Alphabet and Its Role in Mande Transnational Identity: Words As Weapons"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0965330877, 0979953758 | PDF | pages: 260 | 10.8 mb
In her seminal work Dianne White Oyler discusses the creation of the N’ko alphabet, based on the Maninka language, by Souleymane Kanté (1922-1987) in 1949 in Haute Guinée (Guinea). She carefully documents N’ko’s dissemination by a grassroots literacy campaign that started with Kanté and continues to the present, shows how important the language is in the evolution of cultural nationalism of the Mande-speaking people of West Africa, and discusses Kanté’s and Nko’s relationship to pan-Africanism.

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