Afrodeities™

Afrodeities™

Afrodeities™ is more than a project.

It is a return. A return to origin. A return to memory. A return to the frameworks that once governed African civilisation — before they were renamed, reduced, or removed.

Founded by British-Nigerian mythologist and cultural archivist Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi, Afrodeities is a visionary storytelling platform that extends African History, reclaims African mythology, memory, and meaning — not as entertainment, but as civilisational infrastructure.

At its heart lies a sacred mission: to restore the ancestral systems that were shattered by colonisation, fractured by displacement, and overwritten by Western chronologies and logics. And then, to reanimate them for a new generation through books, essays, lectures, codices, and mythic architectural design.

For centuries, African stories were stolen, silenced, or scattered. Oral traditions were dismissed as primitive. Deities were renamed as demons. Sacred calendars were replaced by clocks. But memory - true memory - is not so easily extinguished. Across the Black world, fragments survived: in praise names and river rituals, in lullabies and midwife chants, in the food, the soil, the stars, and the stories our elders told in secret. Underpinned by The African Mythology Series and myriad other codices, The Afrodeities project gathers these fragments and restores them to coherence.

Through mythopoetic storytelling, historical reframing, and speculative imagination, Afrodeities is building something rare: a living archive of ancestral truth and diasporic continuity. At the centre of this work is the Afrodeities Codex™ — a growing body of 99+ interconnected works that includes vivid deity retellings (Meet the Orisas), mytho-historic reconstructions (Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky), microbooks (The Girl Who Climbed The Tree), visual essays, and sacred design systems that carry both grief and glory, rupture and repair.

This is not nostalgia. This is restoration. This is intellectual and spiritual recovery — and cultural repair.

The Codex spans:

— African cosmologies before distortion
— Diasporic memory across oceans and empires
— Cultural technologies encoded in soil, song, kinship, and resistance
— Myth as epistemology, not escapism — as law, not only lore

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.
It is the architecture of what was — and the blueprint for what must come next.