OzikoroNwagu Aneke: Syllabary Inventor, Diviner, and Anti-Colonial Writer of Umuleri
In the mid-20th century, a remarkable figure emerged from Umuleri, a town in present-day Anambra State, Nigeria Nwagu Aneke, a diviner, rural landowner, and prolific writer who developed a unique syllabary and morphographic script for the Umuleri dialect of Igbo. Over more than three decades from the late 1950s until his death in June 1991,…