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, and speaker who is restoring African mythology as a form of memory infrastructure. She is the founder of the Afrodeities Codex — a twelve-volume archive of African cosmology, governance, and knowledge systems.

Her work recasts myth as method. Across literature, curriculum, and public speaking, she treats African mythology not as legend, but as law — a civilizational framework for kinship, justice, ecology, and innovation. To teach African history without its myth systems is to speak of a body with no bones.

She is the creator of Afromantasy, a new literary genre at the crossroads of mythology, memory, and speculative fiction. Her published works include Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky, Meet the Orisas, and The Girl Who Climbed the Tree, with sequels forthcoming in The African Mythology Series.

A technologist turned mythographer, Chinenye brings two decades of systems expertise — having led major infrastructure programmes across government, finance, and global sectors. She now turns that systems fluency to narrative restoration, building memory engines that rethread diasporic identity across time.

Through the Afrodeities Institute and Afrodeities Press, she is developing canonical Afromantasy works, decolonised curriculum modules, and public archives such as AfricanMythology.com and NigerianMythology.com to return African myth to the centre of cultural, educational, and political life.

As a keynote speaker and civilisational strategist, Chinenye delivers powerful talks on:

African mythology as civic and educational infrastructure
Rebuilding diasporic identity through ancestral systems
Decolonising the curriculum with myth-based pedagogy
The intersection of mythology, justice, and technology
Mythological memory as a tool for global restoration

She speaks to audiences across education, innovation, climate, and culture — offering systems-thinking rooted in African cosmology.

Her mission is clear:
To restore what colonisation erased, and imagine the worlds that African mythology was always meant to build.

The Afrodeities Codex

This is not just a blog. It is a canon. The public thought archive of Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi. A place where African history is not whispered, watered down, or explained gently. It is corrected — in full voice, on full record, and on its own terms.

Chinenye believes that African history is incomplete without mythology.

That is the core truth running through this entire body of work, as a foundation and beyond folklore, but as framework. In Africa, myth was memory’s first technology — it governed time, ethics, ecology, and identity. To omit it is to erase the architecture of civilisation itself.

This archive speaks that truth without apology. It echoes in the treatise Mythology is History’s Twin. It sharpens through The Overwritten Series, where names, kinship, and cosmology are traced through the machinery of erasure. It flares in the fragments of Dispatches, each one a shard of ancestral memory reactivated.

And at the centre of it all are the books. The first physical expressions of this canon. Published works that do not merely tell stories, but re-establish systems. These are mytho-literary instruments — crafted to restore, re-educate, and reconnect. They are the memory engines that seed the Codex and anchor the mythological future.

Out now and available for purchase:

Meet the Orisas — a mythic primer introducing the African pantheon to new generations.
Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky — Book One of The African Mythology Series, where fantasy and ancestral memory converge.
The Girl Who Climbed the Tree — a lyrical parable of origin, return, and mythic ascent.

These are more than books. They are blueprints.
Read them. Teach them. Share them. Let them return what was taken.

The archive is open. The myth is alive. The correction has begun.

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More African Mythologies and Compendiums Coming in 2026 and 2027!

A celebration of Africa's vast and beautiful history with its incredible lore and mythology!

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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. They were veritable 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 as utilitarian ancestral technology.

Books that give us insight into the lives and times of the continent, such as 'Pre-Colonial Life and Times' and 'Africa's Legendary Kings', are just some of the areas that Chinenye is exploring with great fervour as she develops the foundational codices for the stories that will enable African history to be better understood, widely shared and engaging.

Nigerian Mythology

Discover the rich narratives of Nigerian folklore and legends.

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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.