Reviving African Mythology: A Journey Through Storytelling and Community Engagement
This short post sketches the Afrodeities Institute’s early efforts to reconnect communities with African mythology through storytelling and public workshops. It signals our mission: to make myth a living, participatory force in everyday cultural life.
Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi
6/3/20251 min read
What happens when you place myth in the centre of civic life?
You get the work of The Afrodeities Institute, where African storytelling becomes a method for healing, truth-telling, and future-making.
We run storytelling events and community residencies that reintroduce ancestral myths into schools, cultural venues, and community groups. These are not retellings. They are restorations of knowledge, dignity, and possibility.
Our mission is to bring African mythology back into everyday life:
As a teaching tool for youth
As a source of wisdom for elders
As a strategy for cultural leaders
And as a framework for those reimagining justice, ecology, and kinship
The myths were never dead — they were waiting for the right mouths, and the right moment. That moment is now.
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Connecting communities through storytelling and workshops.
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