Fan Dawo Kelondo.
According to Wilson's note: "It is but two years since it was first invented. The history of its invention is this. Some youngsters seeing the Americans exchanging letters, determined to have a system of writing in which they might communicate with each other in their own language."
From the description of New invented native alphabet of Western Africa : manuscript, 1834. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612693627
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