African Mythology and Nigerian TV/Film Consultant

AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY TV CONSULTANT

The demand for African mythology in television and film is accelerating. Netflix has commissioned multiple African mythology productions. The BBC has West African mythology in development. Streaming platforms globally are looking for content rooted in African cosmological tradition.

What is not accelerating at the same rate is the availability of people who can advise on that content with genuine scholarly depth, corrective historical understanding, and the narrative instinct that comes from having written in this space for years.

That is what this page is about.

What I bring to a production

I am the author of Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky and Meet the Orishas, and the founder of the Afrodeities Institute CIC, a registered institution established to build African mythology as a legitimate academic discipline. My methodology, forensic historiography, treats African mythological traditions as sophisticated civilisational knowledge systems rather than cultural folklore. That distinction matters enormously when you are building a world that needs to hold up to an audience that knows when they are being given a surface reading.

I can advise on mythology accuracy and cultural context, character and cosmology development grounded in actual tradition, script and world-building consultation for productions drawing on Yoruba, Igbo, Kemetic, Bantu, Akan, Fon, and wider West African traditions, sensitivity reading with scholarly authority rather than purely community perspective, and the diaspora mythological traditions including Candomble, Vodou, and Santeria where African cosmologies survived in different registers.

Why authentic mythology makes better television

African mythological traditions are not a set of stories. They are an architecture. Yoruba cosmology has a structured pantheon, a cosmogony, an ethics, a legal system, and a philosophy of human purpose. Igbo tradition encodes governance principles sophisticated enough to have influenced constitutional theory. Kemetic chronometry was precise enough to govern an empire for three thousand years. When productions draw on this depth rather than its surface, they produce work with the internal coherence and narrative richness that audiences recognise immediately, even when they cannot name what they are responding to.

Getting it wrong is also more visible than it used to be. African and diaspora audiences have both the knowledge and the platform to identify and call out mythological invention dressed as tradition. The reputational cost of that is real and growing.

Traditions I work in

Yoruba and Ifa cosmology, Igbo cosmological and governance traditions, Kemetic and ancient Egyptian mythological systems, Bantu and Kongo cosmology, Akan and Fon/Ewe traditions, Mande and Wolof mythological systems, diaspora traditions including Candomble, Vodou, Santeria, and Hoodoo as African survivals.

Original IP available for adaptation

I also hold original intellectual property available for adaptation discussion through Afrodeities Press, including Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky, Meet the Orishas, and a planned canon of thirty volumes across African mythological traditions. The Afromantasy universe -- African mythology as the foundation for speculative fiction and world-building -- is an early-stage but architecturally complete franchise proposition.

Contact

For development and consultation enquiries, write to [contact link] with a brief outline of your project and timeline. I respond to all serious enquiries within five working days.