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Inventing an African Alphabet

Inventing an African Alphabet

Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC

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Focusing on the Mandombe alphabet and the life-story of its inventor, David Wabeladio Payi, Ramon Sarró combines biography, art, and religion to explore the connections between religious imagination and innovation in Kongo culture. He offers a unique case study of the search for cultural and epistemological independence in the global south.

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September 2024, The International African Library, Englisch
Cambridge Academic
978-1-009-19948-3

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