Bakani ba Kanda

Reis d’África

Authors

  • Peresch Aubham Edouhou Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - Brasil

Keywords:

Meroitization of Kandian languages, Kandian languages, Ikota language, African Manga

Abstract

This visual essay is an attempt to revive the Meroitic script in modernity through Kandian (African) Manga art. The legitimacy of adopting Meroitic letters, which derived from the Rometian (Ancient Egyptian) demotic script, is due, not only because it is an ancestral Kandian writing system, but also to the relationship established between Meroitic and other Kandian languages (Diop, 1977; Imhotep, 2020, 2023; Mboli, 2010, 2024; Obenga, 1993; Sy et al., 2014). Therefore, the meroitization of modern Kandian languages is based on this fact; and the endoglossization of Kandian Manga or Comics through an endographization (using indigenous writing systems) is what this artwork proposes with Bakani ba Kanda (Kings of Africa) in Ikota language of Central Africa.

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Author Biography

Peresch Aubham Edouhou, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - Brasil

Graduado em Licenciatura em Letras Português-Inglês pela Universidade Federal de Pelotas, mestrado em Letras (Estudos da Linguagem) pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG). Atualmente é doutorando em Letras (Estudos Literários) na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Além de escrever poemas em francês e português, escreve também em línguas africanas, e promove a hieroglifização (e hieratização), demotização, meroitização e coptização dessas línguas;

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Published

29-07-2025

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Aubham Edouhou, P. (2025). Bakani ba Kanda: Reis d’África. NJINGA&SEPÉ: evista nternacional e ulturas, Línguas fricanas rasileiras, 5(2), 365–372. etrieved from https://revistas.unilab.edu.br/njingaesape/article/view/1991

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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025): A interdisciplinaridade e diálogo entre as diferentes áreas do saber em favor dos avanços científicos

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Seção IV - Relatos de Experiências, Fotos, Receitas, Tradições e ritos

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