Ibrahim Njoya
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Ibrahim Njoya
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Sultan Ibrahim Njoya c. 1860 – c. 1933 in Yaoundé, was seventeenth in a long dynasty of kings that ruled over Bamum and its people in western Cameroon dating back to the fourteenth century. He succeeded his father Nsangu, and ruled from 1886 or 1887 until his death in 1933, when he was succeeded by his son, Seidou Njimoluh Njoya. He ruled from the ancient walled city of Fumban. Njoya was a neographer, having invented the Bamum syllabary and Shümom language.
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King of Bamum from 1886/7 to 1933
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Njoya
date created:
2007-12-22T18:51:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T12:45:18Z
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