Visionary Author and Founder, reclaiming Afromythology, and creating literary paths for return.
Reclaiming African mythology through literature and fantasy with groundbreaking works and innovative storytelling.
Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi is a British-Nigerian author, mythologist, cultural archivist, and founder of the Afrodeities Codex — a sweeping literary and archival project reclaiming African mythology as a living system of identity, resistance, and belonging.
For over two decades, she has led the delivery of major technology and infrastructure programmes across sectors, including government, banking, insurance, and FMCG — building complex systems at scale.
Now, she turns that same systems fluency to story. Her published works, Meet the Orisas, Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky and The Girl Who Climbed The Tree, restore erased cosmologies and invite diasporic audiences to see mythology not as fantasy, but as cultural infrastructure — sacred technologies for memory, survival, and connection. Through myth, she remaps what was lost, offering narrative frameworks that rethread African and diasporic experience across generations. Her stories are more than stories — they are memory engines. Her mission is reclamation. Her method is myth, and she cannot wait to share her mission.
The Afrodeities Codex
Chinenye is the founder of the Afrodeities.org project and the visionary behind Afromantasy, a new genre at the intersection of African mythology, history, and fantasy. A technologist turned mythographer, Chinenye is the author of Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky and its upcoming sequels in The African Mythology Series.
Her work includes original literary fiction and large-scale mythological restoration, building a future canon where African cosmologies are treated with the dignity and visibility of any global mythology. Through Afrodeities Press, Chinenye is also developing a suite of Afromantasy titles and seeding digital platforms like NigerianMythology.com and AfricanMythology.com to archive, expand, and celebrate African mythic systems. Their mission is simple but urgent: to return African mythologies to the centre of narrative culture—and to imagine the worlds they make possible when given the space to thrive.
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Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky - Out Now!
Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Realms - Q3 2025
Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Forge - Q4 2025
The Afrodeities Codex is a living mytho-literary archive reclaiming the sacred stories, gods, and memory systems of Africa and its diaspora. It is not a single book, but a constellation of works: mythologies, fables, ancestral maps, speculative visions, and cultural frameworks designed to restore what was stolen, forgotten, or forbidden. Across 99+ interlinked works — from visual books and poetic myth to essays, children's stories, and speculative worlds — the Afrodeities Codex builds a narrative infrastructure for identity, resistance, and return.
The African Mythology Series
Afromythology Projects
Reclaiming the Sacred | Restoring the Story | Reimagining the World
Africa’s myths were never just stories. They were cosmologies, codes, and cultural architectures — maps for living, governing, healing, and remembering. The Afromythology Projects™ are a living restoration of this sacred inheritance: creative, mythopoetic, and insurgent. Built across several visionary threads, this body of work returns mythology to its rightful place — not as fantasy, but as ancestral technology.
Books that give us into the lives and times of the continent's lives and times in 'Pre-Colonial Life and Times' and 'Africa's Legendary Kings' are just sone of the areas that Chinenye is exploring with great fervour as she develops the foundational codices for the stories these will be.
Nigerian Mythology
Discover the rich narratives of Nigerian folklore and legends.
Afromantasy Tales™
Where Myth Dares to Dream — A New Lore for a Stolen Future
Afromantasy is not escapism — it is return, reimagination, and insurgent memory. It is what happens when ancestral power meets speculative vision, when the gods rise again not only in shrines but in stories. The Afromantasy Projects™ are a literary and mythopoetic rebellion: daring to imagine the Africa that could have been, had it never been plundered, enslaved, or carved up.
This is not Afrofuturism alone. This is mythology reborn in dream. These projects extend and unfurl the codices of African memory, creating new worlds rooted in old truths — places of resistance, restoration, and radiant Black becoming.
Core Works Include:
The Canopy of Jewels – an enchanted forest saga where design is divine, and nature wears its own memory in gold
The Relikas – new consequence deities formed in the wake of rupture, mythic beings born of absence, pressure, and need
The Return of Lord Sennan – an epic of light magic, betrayal, and re-forged loyalty
Nature Wears Adornment – a lyrical world where every tree is a keeper of memory and every blossom a bearer of code
The Shadow Canopy – where oracles speak in moss and fugitives carve freedom through vine and shadow
Afromantasy is a genre of reclamation. It builds bridges between the Afrodeities Codex™ and future myth. It dares to ask:
What would Africa have dreamed if it had never been interrupted?
And:
What can we dream now, with the memory that remains?
Bridgeworks™
The Ritual Spine Between Myth and Dream
The Bridgeworks™ are the sacred architecture that links the mythic restoration of Afrodeities with the speculative dreaming of Afromantasy. These are the works that do not belong fully to the gods, nor entirely to the future — they are the nine-pointed ennealogy of cultural memory, narrative technology, and poetic inheritance. Each pillar is a codex unto itself, but together they form the ritual spine of this entire mytho-literary body of work.
Each Bridgework is both text and totem — a threshold, a ceremony, a summons.
The Nine Pillars of the Bridgeworks Ennealogy:
Fable™ – The African origins of the world's favourite tales, told not for moral but for memory.
Griot™ – The oral codex, the spoken spell, the witness of culture through voice and lineage.
Score™ – Sound as survival, as spirit, as strategy — the ancestral pulse in music and rhythm.
Spell™ – Language as power, incantation, rebellion — and the ways we wrote freedom into being.
Memorabilia™ – Sacred keepsakes, recipes, heirlooms, and objects that carry the breath of the past.
Sigil™ – The graphic grammar of resistance, identity, legacy: markings, emblems, visual mythologies.
Soil™ – Land, belonging, cultivation — and the long war waged on African ground.
Script™ – The reclamation of story and the re-sacralising of literature itself.
Numbers™ – Mysticism, engineering, and the coded brilliance of African calculation systems.
Together, these nine are the connective tissue between what we remember and what we dream. The Bridgeworks are myth-born but logic-bound. They make visible what empire tried to bury: that African knowledge is structured, spiritual, and sophisticated — not lost, but encoded.
Afromantasy™
Meet Chinenye, the visionary behind Afrodeities.org, reclaiming African mythology and launching a new genre that intertwines history, fantasy, and rich cultural narratives through captivating literature.
Afromyth Gallery
Explore African mythology through captivating visuals and storytelling experiences.
