Nsibidi
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Nsibidi is a traditional ideogram system of writing indigenous to West Africa. The name may also refer to the clerical secret society believed to have invented the script. Nsibidi originated in Igboland and spread to parts of Southern Nigeria.
Source: Simon Battestini, African Writing and Text (Legas Publishing, 1999).
The nsibidi writing was invented and used extensively by the Ekpe secret society of the Efiks and the Ibibio. It was and is still a means of identification and of transmitting the society's informations.
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- - Some "Nsibidi" Signs, (JSTOR: article by E. Dayrell in "Man" 1910)
