Nsibidi
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Nsibidi is a system of symbols or proto-writing developed by the Ekpe secret society that traversed the southeastern part of Nigeria.
They are classified as pictograms, though there have been suggestions that some are logograms or syllabograms.
The name of a boy called 'Onuaha' as recorded by J. K. Macgregor in 1909. Macgregor interpreted the first two symbols as corruptions of the Latin letters 'N' and 'A' and the last symbol a generic nsibidi. Macgregor noted the growing European influence on nsibidi.
Contemporary Igbo art: carved mahogany doors covered in nsibidi symbolism and Christian iconography in Aba, Nigeria
The Ikpe from Enyong written in nsibidi as recorded by J. K. Macgregor
Nsibidi on the Igbo 'Ukara' cloth of the Ekpe society
Writing systems of Africa
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The writing systems of Africa refer to the current and historical practice of writing systems on the African continent, both indigenous and those introduced.
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Bilingual and biscriptal "Stop" sign in Tifinagh. (qif in Arabic, bedd in Riffian)
Genesis 29.11–16 in Geʽez
The Kaddare alphabet