Restoring African Mythology: A Journey Through Storytelling and Cultural Memory

What happens when the gods are forgotten, and the myths erased? This post traces how The Afrodeities Institute is restoring ancestral memory through workshops, codices, and cultural immersion—reviving African mythology not as relic, but as living knowledge.

6/3/20251 min read

At The Afrodeities Institute, storytelling is not entertainment — it is infrastructure.
Through our workshops, codices, and live programmes, we use African mythology to rebuild what was stolen: memory, meaning, moral logic, and belonging.

This project is about more than reviving lost tales — it’s about restoring the civic and cultural intelligence encoded within those tales. Our stories carried frameworks for justice, kinship, governance, and care. When we tell them now, we don’t just remember — we recode.

We’ve launched storytelling initiatives across the UK and are now connecting to partners across the diaspora — Brazil, Haiti, the U.S., and Nigeria — to seed mythology as a living tool for the future.

Come for the story. Stay for the systems it teaches.