Mythological Africans Podcast

Hello Friends! For the month of May, we go north with our meanderings through the landscape of African geomythology. Come along as we cross the Sahara with the Tuareg, the African…

Around 9:30 pm on the night of Thursday August 21st 1986, a roaring sound, muted like an approaching storm, arose near the area surrounding Lake Nyos in Cameroon’s North West regio…

In “Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins”, American Geologist Dorothy Vitaliano asserts that the lack of widespread catastrophic flood myths from the African continent is o…

In this episode of the MA Podcast, we introduce the concept of Geomythology (another term for the folklore of landforms). In the process, we also start our exploration of the kinds…

Hello friends, new and old! (New friends, read this post if you’re not sure what Mythological Africans is about.) Meanwhile, I am so thrilled to share this week’s MA podcast episod…

Hello Friends! In this week’s episode, the last in our exploration of African trees and forests, we’ll acquaint ourselves with some arboreal friends and fiends from across the cont…

Hello there! (And welcome to new friends! Read this post if you’re not sure what Mythological Africans is about!) Have you been following along so far this year? We’ve been talking…

Hello Friends! We interrupt regular podcast programming to bring you the news. The Watkins Book of African Folklore (…or The Mythological Africans Book) is here! Our baby, all 1.…

The Nakayima Tree (Pterygota mildbraedii) is one of Uganda’s most well known cultural artefacts. A recent tragedy at the Nakayima Shrine, where the tree stands, highlights some of…

If you grew up immersed in Christian theology like I did, you’re probably familiar with the Cedars of Lebanon. King Solomon famously used large quantities of this holy and most pre…

Outside of specific institutions and contexts, you’ll probably not find much about African Rainforest Hunter-Gatherers or Forest People of Central Africa in regular African history…

Hello Friends! In this week’s episode, we look at two prevailing dispositions many Africans have toward the trees and forests of the African continent: fear and love. We come from…

Proverbs. The palm oil with which words are eaten. Those nutrient rich word pellets which have sustained community life across the continent and the world, probably from as far bac…

Welcome to the very first episode of MA 2025! If you are a longtime friend, thank you for sticking with Mythological Africans all these years. If you’re new, welcome to the communi…

Overview 44 episodes, about 12,000 downloads, and over 3,000 new friends, subscribers, and followers from across the world! I can’t express how grateful I am for your time, your at…

We ended last week with the tragic fall of Nsa’gu, Fon of the Bamum people in Cameroon, to the Nso. In this episode, we delve into the Bamum side of the story which culminates in N…

But First…You Were Promised Discounts! The Watkins Book of African Folklore is on Tertulia! Pro-Tip: If you create an account and join the Tertulia co-op, you get 50% off your fir…

This episode is brought to you by another instance of my brain refusing to give me peace until I worked out a puzzle it threw at me. Last week, we talked about the case of the AmaN…

Have you ever stopped while reading a folktale and wondered where you’ve seen the story before? In this week’s episode we look at a folkloric account from the Ndebele of South Afri…

If you know anything about Mythological Africans, you know we love folktale retellings around here. My first book, The Runaway Princess and Other Stories, is a collection of prose…