Solomana Kante
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Soulemayne Kante or Solomana Kante (1922-1987) was an African writer and inventor of the N'Ko alphabet for the Mande languages of West Africa. N’Ko means 'I say' in all Mande languages. Kante created N’Ko in 1949 after a night of deep meditation, in response to what he felt were beliefs that Africans were a "cultureless people", and since there was prior to this time, no indigenous African writing system for his language. N'ko came first into use in Kankan, Guinea as a Maninka alphabet and disseminated from there into other Mande-speaking parts of West Africa.
