MoMA Showcases An Ingenious African Alphabet Poised To Help Avert Environmental Crisis
2022-04-02
One day in 1952, while visiting a small village his native Côte d’Ivoire, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré found some pebbles that changed how he perceived the history of his people. Primed by lectures describing the African origins of Egyptian civilization, Bouabré noticed that the curiously geometrical stones resembled hieroglyphics. Surmising thatContinue Reading