Nji Oumarou Nchare was raised in Cameroon, Africa, the son of Mbouombouo Moussa and Lipainpouo Amina.
It was during his primary studies in 1976 at Njintout when Oumarou first learned about the Bamum script and Sultan Ibrahim Njoya.
Nchare was in Class 6 in primary school and the story of Sultan Ibrahim Njoya's inventions were told to him.
He instantly became intrigued by the story of Njoya's inventions but his primary school instructor had no knowledge of the writing itself.
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.