Inventing an African Alphabet: Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC: 69 (The International African Library, Series Number 69) - Tapa dura

Sarró, Ramon

 
9781009199490: Inventing an African Alphabet: Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC: 69 (The International African Library, Series Number 69)
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ISBN 10: 1009199498 ISBN 13: 9781009199490
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Sinopsis

In 1978, Congolese inventor David Wabeladio Payi (1958–2013) proposed a new writing system, called Mandombe. Since then, Mandombe has grown and now has thousands of learners in not only the Democratic Republic of Congo, but also France, Angola and many other countries. Drawing upon Ramon Sarró's personal friendship with Wabeladio, this book tells the story of Wabeladio, his alphabet and the creativity that both continue to inspire. A member of the Kimbanguist church, which began as an anticolonial movement in 1921, Wabeladio and his script were deeply influenced by spirituality and Kongo culture. Combining biography, art, and religion, Sarró explores a range of ideas, from the role of pilgrimage and landscape in Wabeladio's life, to the intricacies and logic of Mandombe. Sarró situates the creative individual within a rich context of anthropological, historical and philosophical scholarship, offering a new perspective on the relationships between imagination, innovation and revelation.

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Ramon Sarró is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology of Africa at the University of Oxford. His book The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast: Iconoclasm Done and Undone received the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute. His current research, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, focuses on prophetic imagination in Angola.

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Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2023
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
1009199498
ISBN 13 
9781009199490
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Número de páginas
220
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