After a long absence, even by my standards, I saw an article in Aeon about African scripts that is so relevant to Lingo that I just had to revisit this blog to include it.
Written by D Vance Smith, the essay looks mainly at the Lybico-Berber script, which, the author argues, puts to bed the myth that pre-colonial Africans were not literate. The script, which is no longer used and has never been completely deciphered, is also called Numidian and Old Libyan and has recently become the official script of the Amazigh movement in the Maghreb. This was the subject of an earlier post on this very blog, so it's nice to revisit the subject with some more in-depth analysis.
