Decolonizing African Mythologies.European Scholars and Missionaries of the 19th century began documenting African Oral Traditions as “Myths”.German ethnologist Hermann Baumann is heavily recognised for systematically classifying them. His 1936 work,”Creation and Primordial Time in the myth of African Peoples “, analysed over 2000 African Creation Stories.Baumann argued that Creation Stories formed the core of African Mythology,using the term to categorise diverse African Oral Traditions.Written accounts of African Mythology,often framed through European lens as “Myth” or “Legend “ began appearing in the early 1800s.These early European efforts were part of ethnographic studies that often sought to classify,rather than elevate African narratives compared to European literary traditions.It is important to note that Decolonial and African Centred Epistemological Sovereignists scholars ,educators and Traditionalists such as myself,Isidore Okpewoh and others, argue that these narratives are best understood as complex artistic and cultural expressions rather than mere “myths” in the derogatory sense often implied by earlier European Scholars and African scholars who keep on regurgitating these offensive colonial classifications.Happy Decolonized Black History Month 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿