Nsibidi

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Nsibidi is a traditional ideogram system of writing indigenous to West Africa. The name has also been used to refer to the clerical secret society believed to have invented the script.

The Nsibidi writing was invented and used by the Ekpe secret society of the Efiks and the Ibibio/Annang of coastal Southeastern Nigeria. It was and is still a means of identification and of transmitting the society's information.

[edit] References

• Battestini, Simon P. X. (1999) African Writing and Text Legas Publishing, New York, ISBN 1-894508-06-8
• Dayrell, Elphinstone (1910) "Some "Nsibidi" Signs" Man 10(67): p.113-115, available via JSTOR [1]
• Dayrell, Elphinstone (July 1911) "Further Notes on 'Nsibidi Signs with Their Meanings from the Ikom District, Southern Nigeria" The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 41: pp. 521-540, available via JSTOR [2]

[edit] External links

• "Nsibidi Script" Cornell University Library