So Nigerians independantly invented writing, but it failed to develop into a proper script due to some gayass larpers deciding to keep it niche? Has anything similar to this happened elsewhere?
>>18446777Why would you adopt this complicated logographic system when Arabic was right there and had been there for centuries?
>>18446779Nsibidi predates the arrival of Arabic and it's adjacents by hundreds and potentially more than 1000 years if you were to count it's ancestral forms.
>>18446789> potentially more than 1000 yearsI seem to have been wrong on this, the only sources reporting anything like that are *actual*, random afrocentric pages. It's oldest form appears in 200 AD, meaning it predates significant MENA contact by 500 years and probably the presence of Arabic by 700 years. I wouldn't be able to speak with confidence on how popular Arabic was and became over time, but I imagine it wasn't too popular until relatively recent times, which would give even more time for Nsibidi to develop and spread.
>>18446829Well it seems like Igbo wasn't even being written in Ajami script anyways so its a bit of a moot point
>>18446829The earliest version is present on the Ikom Monoliths (pic related). Proper Nsibidi appeared in 400 AD.
It's super aesthetic.
Its not unheard of people who focused on oral tradition looking down on things like booksThis is also why most of what we know of ancient persia comes from the greeks and we know almost nothing about their eastern possessions
my ancestors developed this writing system. actually there is another tribe in africa that developed something like writing but it was in the form of these cool tablets you used to memorize information called lukasa pic rel. for it to become writing abstraction and systematization is not sufficient, it must also follow the syntax of spoken language>>18446833oo never seen this before, interesting
>>18446777Linear B comes to mind in terms of scripts that stayed within small circles and never caught on
Why are Nigerians so much better than other Blacks? Even the dumb ones that emigrated now have an I.Q. in the 90s
>>18447418> I.Q. in the 90sSource?I wouldn't really be able to answer your question, but it is interesting how most Black inventions I can name come from the region. It's also interesting how the Nigerians most often stereotyped as smart(Igbos) contributed little, though tbf, what they did contribute was extremely important (West-African iron mettalurgy originated in what's now Igboland, allowing blacks to jump straight from the stone to the iron age).
