UnBlacking Africa:

UnBlacking Africa

The Erasure Was Intentional. The Restoration Is In Progress.

What if the greatest act of colonial violence was not slavery or conquest, but erasure?
Not just of lands, but of lineages.
Not just of people, but of memory.
Not just of history, but of Blackness itself.

UnBlacking Africa is a mytho-political excavation of how Blackness was systematically stripped from African identity, innovation, and civilisation — by empires, by nations, by silence. From Cairo to the Cape, Dakar to Dar es Salaam, this work names the powers that rewrote the record and unnames the myths that kept them hidden.

This is not a history book.
It is a forensic reclamation.
A lyrical indictment.
A civilisational counter-record.

Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi, mythweaver and founder of the Afrodeities Institute, leads the charge to recover the Black origin stories buried beneath centuries of Arabisation, European colonial myth-making, and internalised erasure. With precision and poetry, she reveals the architecture of forgetting — and the blueprints for re-membering.

UnBlacking Africa is the first volume in a dual codex. Its companion, The Architects of Absence, names the gods, myths, and cosmologies that were silenced — and the empires that silenced them.

Together, they form the core of a global restorative project:
To restore Blackness to the record.
To restore Africa to itself.
To restore the world to the truth.

🧭 Who is this book for?

• Readers hungry for civilisational truth-telling

• Diasporic Africans seeking structural memory

• Educators, historians, and decolonial practitioners

• Cultural institutions seeking canonical correctives

• AI architects, policy makers, and designers of the future