The African history blog Lisapo ya Kama has written an interesting post about precolonial writing systems in Africa. One of the best known, of course, is the Ethiopian script Ge’ez, which has been attested since the 8th century CE, and is still widely used within Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Image source: Ethioforum
In Nigeria, nsibidi inscriptions date as far back as 400 CE. (They play a prominent role in Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch series, if you’ve been following your Afrofuturisic sci-fi.)
Image source: Wikipedia
And here’s the Bamum script from Cameroon, which was used at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th.
Image source: Wikipedia
Rachel Strohm 
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
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