A beautiful new book was waiting at the PO for me on the way home: Afrikan Alphabets - The story of writing in Afrika by Safi Mafundikwa. The alphabets and syllabaries are so beautiful. I scanned the shü-mom syllabary above from the book. It was invented by King Njoya of the Bamum people in Cameroon in 1896. He refined and modified it over 30 years.Below are some other African alphabets I found on the Cornell University site.
Mende from Sierra Leone
Vai from Liberia and Sierrra Leone
Nsibidi from Nigeria
Akan from Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana
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