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Comparative Literature

Chukwuma Azuonye

1991

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The Nwagu Aneke Project, Donatus Nwoga, Chukwuma Azuonye, Nelson Okonkwo, Pat Ndukwe, O. S. Ogwueleka, F. U. Okafor, P. N. Ngwu, Iroha Udeh Dec 1990

The Nwagu Aneke Project, Donatus Nwoga, Chukwuma Azuonye, Nelson Okonkwo, Pat Ndukwe, O. S. Ogwueleka, F. U. Okafor, P. N. Ngwu, Iroha Udeh

Chukwuma Azuonye

The Nwagu Aneke script is a syllabic system of writing, among the riverian Igbo people of Umuleri in the Omambala (Anambra) basin of present day Anambra State of Nigeria. A system which occupies a well-established niche in the history of writing, syllabic writing has traditionally been categorised as an intermediate stage between phoneticized pictographic and alphabetic systems. However, as this research project intends to demonstrate, the more we can understand the provenance, nature and other aspects of the script, the more we can understand certain aspects of the evolution of writing systems on which there is doubt, debate or paucity …


Reminiscences Of The Odunke Community Of Artists, 1966-1990, Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 1990

Reminiscences Of The Odunke Community Of Artists, 1966-1990, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

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