Welcome to the Home of a new genre: Afromantasy™

Discover the Magic of Afromantasy™

In this world inspired by the gods, goddesses and spirits being reclaimed by the Afrodeities project, you will discover enchanted lands where Nature Wears Adornments0169'. 'The Grand Lady of Design' has her own adventures, along with her wondrous creatures of 'The Canopy of Jewels', who face resistance from 'The Nemetic Clan of the Shadow Canopy'!

You will meet the inspiring and intriguing characters of the 'Who Series', from 'The Girl Who Climbed The Tree' to 'The Boy Who Pissed in the Wind'.

Afromantasy™ has inspired the epic tales of 'The Children of the Ember Sky', 'The Brotherhood of Nsibidi' and 'The Goodness and the Glory', just a few of the many stories in the works.

We will also be curating art collections driven by the stories and key scenes.

Afromantasy™ is a literary, artistic, and storytelling genre that blends Afrofuturism and African Futurism with Africa’s vast mythological landscapes.

Afromantasy™ is a literary, artistic, and storytelling genre that blends African mythology, folklore, history, and fantasy themes. It reclaims and reshapes African narratives by interweaving history, folklore, and speculative fiction, allowing ancient mythologies to manifest in fantastical, modern, and future-driven storytelling. It draws from Afrofuturism while maintaining a core focus on:

• African cosmologies and mythologies

• Intertwining Mythological and historical narratives

• Epic storytelling rooted in African traditions

• Reclaiming and reshaping African narratives through fiction, media, and art

It is a distinct genre and intellectual property.

Afromantasy™ is a Movement

Afromantasy™ is changing the face of what African fantasy is about because, and because it stems from an ongoing mission to reclaim African mythology as a lens through which to explore the history of Africa and its civilisations, it will be a literary movement that allows for Afrocentric storytelling that challenges Western tropes – No "chosen one" saviour narratives, no default Western hero structure, but a new kind of epic, one that lets readers engage with systems of justice, power, and resistance while being entertaining.

Afromantasy™ is the development of a new mythic framework, and the stories are not just futuristic; they will be rooted in Africa’s deep past, philosophy, and mythological legacy. Where Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism are about looking forward, Afromantasy is about reclaiming the past while shaping the present and future.

This is an essential concept - it's not just writing fantasy with African elements, but cohering with Afrodeities mission of reclaiming history, mythology, and worldview to reframe the entire way Africa’s past and legacy are perceived. The Children of the Ember Sky - a book from Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi in the Afromantasy Genre.

The Afromantasy™ Difference

The tales are not just African fantasy or historical retellings because they help to bolster forgotten or unknown historical narratives. Africa wasn’t a land of ignorance waiting to be “discovered,” but a continent full of advanced civilizations, structured governance, and deep spiritual and environmental understanding, and tales in the genre will focus on these points.

Afromantasy is mythology-based but historically grounded.

Much of Fantasy as Western fantasy is rooted in European mythologies (Norse, Greek, Arthurian), which often shape its themes of war, conquest, and heroic individualism, while Afromantasy emerges from African communalism, moral philosophy, and spiritual justice—a completely different way of thinking about power, heroism, and destiny.

Mythical Gallery

Explore captivating visuals inspired by African mythology and folklore.

Connect with Afromantasy™ Today

Reach out for collaborations, stories, or inquiries about our lore.

Meet the Founder of Afromantasy™ and the Afrodeities Project

Welcome to Afromantasy.org and what is a very exciting creative journey that I hope that you will join me for. You are in one part of the African Mythology kingdom of fantasy, non-fiction and fiction that I am building in every spare second I am alive. Afrodeities.org is the other part and start of this movement.

I am a technologist, entrepreneur, and creative, bringing all the facets of my experience into my work as an author and the founder of Afrodeities™. My career has been delivering transformative technology for banking, finance, and insurance that helps industries operate more effectively. But I have always been drawn to storytelling, creativity, and the power of culture.

I have always written in some way, but when I sat down to write about the unknown innovations of people of African descent, the theme of erasure of African history and stories hit me and I decided to start at the beginning of that phenomenon. runs deep and that if I wanted to tackle that, I needed to start at the beginning, at the roots of that erasure and obscuration.

That decision led me down a path of not just the African Mythology Series but to the creation of fantasy fiction purely driven by the landscape, myths and history of Africa. That’s how the genre Afromantasy™ was born, and I believe this is how Greek and Norse mythology would have developed and the canon expanded, and African mythology has never really received the oxygen to get there.

The remedy has begun. My first book, Nigerian Mythology, is the inaugural volume in a series exploring African Mythology. ‘The Book of Bakongo’, ‘The Songs of the Songhai’, ‘The Spirits of Senegambia’ and ‘The Dancers of Dahomey’ are just a few of the books that will follow in this series. African Mythology is more than just folklore, it is the foundation of entire civilisations, shaping moral codes, social structures, and even legal traditions long before written records captured any histories.

The first book I am working on in the Afromantasy™ series is called FABLE, and it tells fantastical stories based on real stories we may not realise have roots in Africa. ‘The Shadow of Leopold’, a reimagining of the DRC’s history, helps to establish the link between Afrodeities™, where the history lives and Afromantasy™, where it is activated to review history through a fantastical as well as historical lens.

So come, fantasy and mythology enthusiasts, scholars of mythology and lovers of African mythology, come all those who love to learn.

I hope you don't mind if I share the books and stories with you in one of the sections above, even as they lie in various states of draft and I hope you will tell me which you may want to see first! Join me on this journey of reclamation and creation.

All love

Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi