the development of Akauku. Akauku has 83 characters, 70 graphemes, 10 arithmetic digits, 3 diacritics. Akauku Mfemfe has 91 characters, 70 syllabo graphemic characters, 10 arithmetic figures, 3 diacritics, 3 punctuation marks, 5 arithmetic marks. In about 15 years through and 5 successive stages the end result was Akauku Mfemfe and this allowed the Bamum to produce maps, birth certificates, construction blue prints, administration documents, court acts, accountings and historical archives. Njoya may have also invented a hand-powered mill for grinding corn and other cereals. After initially starting the project in the 1980s, his grandson, Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya, a present-day Sultan in Cameroon and the latest ruler in the Bamoun Dynasty, has continued the transition of the palace into a museum, in which schoolchildren are learning the Bamum script developed by Ibrahim Njoya. See also Bamum people Bamum kingdom List of Cameroonian artists References Further reading Gorges E.H. (1930) The Great War in West Africa, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., London; Naval & Military Press, Uckfield, 2004: "A King of Great Accomplishments," Awake!, December, 2007, pp. 26–27 Alexandra Loumpet-Galitzine, Ibrahim Njoya, maître du dessin bamoun in Anthologie de l'art africain du XXe siècle, eds. N'Goné Fall and Jean Loup Pivin, Revue Noire, Paris, 2001, pp. 102–105. External links Cameroon history "Njimoluh determined what is beautiful enough to be Bamum" "Kings of Africa - Cameroun" 1860 births 1933 deaths Cameroonian traditional rulers Creators of writing systems