>>6020
Africans have already invented a system that is somewhat similar to Japanese kanji.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsibidi
Nsibidi is a pictographic system, which is the predecessor to what's called a logographic system (that's what kanji are; abstracted pictograms). According to the Wikipedia article, there have been 500 recorded symbols but they vary across the different peoples who use them, so there are more likely to be thousands in use.
This is not a far cry from Japanese, although it is an earlier stage of development (and the Asians developed these characters thousands of years before the Africans).
Also, only Japanese scholars would know 10k characters. To read a newspaper, one needs 3,000 and the average Jap doesn't go much further than this.