Last May on this group there was discussion of Latin-based
transcriptions for African languages, and during the exchange, there
was mention of the early (1930) Africa alphabet and its relation to
current orthographies. Well, thanks to Konrad Tuchsherer, who
supplied me with a copy to scan (and reviewed my first online
version), the Practical Orthography of African Languages, rev. ed. is
now available at http://www.bisharat.net/poal30.htm

It's notable that the characters available in the unicode fonts
Gentium and Arial Unicode MS cover all that were used in the text of
that document save one (a capital modified Z for which I inserted
little .gifs in the Shona examples near the end of the text).

Don Osborn
Bisharat.net