What Chinenye is Creating:
-----------Codices for Connection
------------Myth for Memory
-------------=Stories of Survival and Sovereignty
-----------------Roots for Return
Visionary Journey
Afrodeities™ is not just a project. It is a return.
Founded by British-Nigerian mythologist and cultural archivist Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi, Afrodeities™ is a visionary storytelling platform reclaiming African mythology, memory, and meaning. At its heart lies a sacred mission: to restore the ancestral frameworks that were shattered by colonisation, erasure, and disconnection — and to reanimate them for a new generation through books, lectures, codices, and mythic architecture.
For centuries, African stories were stolen, silenced, or scattered. But memory is not so easily extinguished. Through mythopoetic storytelling, historical reframing, and speculative imagination, we are rebuilding the world our ancestors knew — and the future they dreamed of.
Our growing Afrodeities Codex™ spans 99+ interconnected works: from vivid retellings of ancient deities (Meet the Orisas) to mytho-historic reconstructions (Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky), to microbooks, visual storytelling, and sacred design systems that hold both grief and glory, rupture and resilience.
This is a living archive of:
African cosmologies before distortion
Diasporic memory across oceans
Cultural technologies hidden in song, soil, food, and rebellion
Myth as infrastructure, not fantasy
We write to remember.
We create to restore.
We myth-make to survive.
Afrodeities™ is a return to self — and a gift to the future.
Chinenye's work beautifully intertwines African mythology and fantasy, creating a captivating literary experience unlike any other.
Ase Balogu
★★★★★
Restoring the mythologies that were meant to be forgotten.
Through Afrodeities™ — a living codex of 80+ interconnected works — she is building a mytho-literary archive that bridges Africa and its diaspora through story, memory, and ancestral imagination.
Her work fuses speculative storytelling, historical reclamation, and sacred design. From Meet the Orisas to Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky, every book offers a tool for cultural survival, identity restoration, and narrative sovereignty.
This is not just writing.
This is infrastructure for a future we remember.
Chinenye is available for:
Festival speaking
University guest lectures
Panel discussions
Creative residencies
Cultural collaboration
Based in the UK | 🌍 Working globally
Books, media & codex links in footer below.
What My Work Speaks To: Themes & Movements
Afrofantasy: Reimagining African futures through myth, magic, and speculative fiction
Diaspora Memory: Cultural connection through language, food, story, and struggle
Cultural Restoration: Rebuilding the mythologies that were stolen by colonialism
Ancestral Knowledge: Codifying Indigenous cosmologies and sacred technologies
Resistance Literature: Storytelling as survival, rebellion, and spiritual technology
Mythical Memoir: The personal, the ancestral, and the allegorical woven as one
Pan-African Vision: Unifying African and diasporic voices across time and geography
Black Mythology: Building an intergenerational canon from Lagos to Louisiana
Sacred Systems: From the Orisa to the Relikas, from Red Rice to the Shadow Sky
Codex as Archive: Literary infrastructure for cultural continuity and creative sovereignty
This is not just art. It is insurgent memory work. This is the Codex of Return.