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Ibrahim Njoya
Ibrahim Njoya was king of Bamum in western Cameroon from the late 1880s until 1931. A ruler of wide curiosity, he invented the Bamum script around 1896 and refined it over the following decades, set up schools and a printing press, had maps of his kingdom drawn and devised a new religion blending Islam, Christianity and local belief. The French authorities curbed his power and exiled him to Yaoundé in 1931.
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