About

The Afrodeities Institute is dedicated to restoring African mythology as civilisational infrastructure. Through books, codices, and essays, we highlight the sophistication and range of Africa’s mythological systems, which have too often been erased or obscured in global history.

Founded by author and cultural historian Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi, Afrodeities reframes African mythology not as folklore but as a body of knowledge that encoded law, ecology, time, and social order. Its projects include The African Mythology Series, beginning with the illustrated volume Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky, and Meet the Orisas, a vibrant introduction to the Yoruba pantheon.

Afrodeities is also developing the Bridgeworks Duodecalogy, a twelve-volume codex tracing Africa’s civilisational arc from Fable to Seed. This work functions as a connective architecture, showing what Africa created, what was obscured, and what must be remembered again. Our mission is both corrective and regenerative: to return African gods, myths, and systems to their rightful place at the centre of world civilisation.