The Africa Alphabet was developed 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann. He developed it with a group of Africanists at the IAI in London. Its aim was to be able to write all the African languages for practical and scientific purposes.
See also: Standard Alphabet by Lepsius, African reference alphabet
Source
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, Florian Coulmas, 1996, Blackwell, Oxford
