The
Africa Alphabet was developed
1928 under the lead of
Diedrich Westermann. He developed it with a group of
Africanists[?] at the
IAI[?] in London. Its aim was to be able to write all the
African languages for practical and scientific purposes.
See also: Standard Alphabet by Lepsius, African reference alphabet
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, Florian Coulmas, 1996, Blackwell, Oxford