In 2006 the King of the Bamum, El Hadj Sultan Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya, recognized Nchare for his efforts by awarding him the Bamum title “Nji” (“Master”).
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With the project's Co-Director, Konrad Tuchscherer, he has traveled the Bamum Kingdom collecting and photographing threatened documents, created a modern archives for the storage of documents, and helped to create a functional computer font for the Bamum script.
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He is involved with the translation and inventory of documents with a team of translators and has commenced an initiative to spread literacy among Bamum youth in schools.
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This recognition is among the highest titles in Bamum society, and once bestowed is passed down from generation to generation.
Bamum | Bamum language |
A Bamum font is being worked on by the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project to allow printing in the unique script of the Bamum language of Cameroon.
The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts created for the Bamum language by King Njoya of Cameroon at the turn of the 20th century.
The DNA testing recorded Cameroon´s slaves of ethnicities such as Tikar, Ewondo, Babungo, Bamileke, Bamum, Masa, Mafa, Udemes, Kotoko, Fulani and Hausa from Cameroon (many Hausa also came from other places such as Nigeria).
Ibrahim Njoya, intellectual, inventor, and ruler over Bamum and its people in western Cameroon
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Seidou Njimoluh Njoya (1902–1992), ruled the Bamum people of Cameroon from 1933 to 1992