N'Ko

Alphabet created in 1949 by Solomana Kante of Guinea for West African Manding languages. "N'Ko" means "I say" in Mandinka. Kante created it to refute the colonial prejudice that Africa had no writing. Written right-to-left, it writes languages of ~35 million people. Currently used in schools and radio broadcasts in Guinea, Mali, and Côte d'Ivoire — a successful case of modern indigenous script creation in Africa.