African History
'African History is incomplete without African Mythology.'
What if I told you that Africa was not lost, but overwritten? That the names, maps, lineages, and laws we associate with “African history” are not remnants, but replacements. Not absences, but substitutions. That to study Africa through Western archives is to study what was permitted to remain, not what was true. That the first thing stolen wasn’t land.
Africa was overwritten through systems so total that they touched everything: our names, our stories, our gods, our laws, our families, our maps, our minds. It is not that Africans had no history — it is that their entire informational structure was intentionally dismantled and replaced.And today, what passes for “African history” in most books is a post-erasure afterthought. A reaction to empire. A child of slavery.
But we were a civilisation before contact. A repository of cosmologies, philosophies, governance structures, rites, and rituals not borrowed but born — erased because they were inconvenient.
This work is the beginning of their reanimation.
Mythology is Central to History
African history is incomplete without African mythology. The deities were governance, justice, kinship, ecology. To speak of African civilisation without its myth systems is to speak of a body with no bones.
It is to miss critical elements of how the civilisations of Africa developed and evolved to create true greatness and legacies in the world that despite obscuration, still stand the test of time, waiting to be discovered.
Every essay is a record.
Beyond Folklore:
Mythology is History's twin, exiled, overwritten, and often erased; the full texture of Africa is lost without the context of the systems, practices, and beliefs that build the various, vast cultures.
This is the foundation of everything I write, from The Overwritten Series to the fast-burning pieces in Dispatches.
These essays speak where the codices point. Together, they correct the record.
Credible History, Legible Mythology: Mythology as Archival System
Myth is how Africa archived its history.You’re restoring truth to African history, and clarity to African myth. The work is to decode it, and distill the civilisational principles within the myths.We make African history credible again — and African mythology legible again — so Black people everywhere can inherit the knowledge that was hidden, buried, or renamed.
Mythology is Infrastructure
From concept to completion, our architecture services use the latest technology and techniques to deliver exceptional results.
Culture was Code, and the Codex is Our comeback
The Afrodeities Codex helps us to piece together what was important to African societies and the commonalities in civics, governance, law, politics and values of the societies across borders, in peace and dispute, in innovating and sustaining.
Mythological Principles were a civilisational operating system
A fuller history of Africa is embedded in, and accessed hrough the arcitecture established by the Africa's mythological frameworks. The imense diversity of Africa beies the consistency that is to be found in hw people interated iwth and each other abd eir environments in symbiotic ways.
Chinenye is Reframing African History through Reclaiming African Mythology
Restoring African mythology through innovative storytelling.
chinenye@chinenye.co.uk
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