| LC control no. | no 95060646 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kanté, Souleymane, 1922-1987 |
| Variant(s) | Kantè Sulemaana, 1922-1987 Sulemaana, Kantè, 1922-1987 Kantè, Sulemaana, 1922-1987 Kanté, Solomana, 1922-1987 Kanté, Soulemana, 1922-1987 |
| Associated country | Guinea |
| Located | Kankan (Guinea) |
| Birth date | 1922 |
| Death date | 1987 |
| Field of activity | N'ko alphabet Mandingo language--Writing Mandekan languages--Writing |
| Found in | His Nko, 1992: t.p., transcribed from Nko alphabet (Kante̳ Sulemaana) D. Oyler, For those who say N'ko [thesis], 1995: p. 158 (Souleymane Kanté, died 1987) passim (born 1922) D. Dalby, Further indigenous scripts, in African language studies, v. 10 (1969): p. 162 (Souleymane Kantè of Kankan) Oyler, D. The history of the N'ko alphabet and its role in Mandé transnational identity, 2003: CIP foreword, etc. (Souleymane Kantè) Email from Carolyn C. Williams, Africana Homestead Legacy, publisher of Oyler's The history of the N'ko alphabet ... 2003, 6/3/03: (per Dr. Oyler, although he had an Islamic name, Kantè did not practice Islam. His living descendants and countrymen in Guinea spell his name and the family name as Souleymane Kantè, not in the Arabic transliteration Sulemaana. Academic scholars of N'ko worldwide will perform key word searches on the name Souleymane Kantè.) Dictionnaire bilingue Solomana Kanté, 2012: title page (Solomana KANTE, inventeur de l'Alphabet N'ko; Soulemana KANTE) |
| Associated language | man |
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