Creation Stories of Africa: The Children of Kings

Deriv; Yoruba Copper mask for King Obalufon, Ife, Nigeria c. 1300 C.E. (Public Domain), Diviner's bag, Yoruba peoples, Oyo region, Nigeria. (CC BY 2.0) 

Africa is a vast continent full of contrasts, and as one would expect, has many and varied stories of creation. Most countries in Africa are made up of different tribes of people, rather than one specific race, so it makes more sense to look at regional stories as opposed to mythologies based on individual nations. 

The Children of Oduduwa, West Africa 

The Yoruba people from West Africa call themselves the Children of Oduduwa. Oduduwa is held to be the first of all the kings, who came from the east and ruled over ancient Ife, where, with Obatala, he began the creation of the world. Obatala created the first humans out of clay, while Oduduwa became the first divine king of the Yoruba. He sent his sons and daughters out with crowns to rule over all of the other Yoruba kingdoms and all the Yoruba royal families claim descent through them back to Oduduwa. 

Statue of Oduduwa at Ile-Ife. (CC BY-SA 4.0) 

Oduduwa first-born of my sons, to you I give 
The five-clawed Bird, the sand of power. Go now, 
Call a despairing land to smiling life 
Above the jealous sea, and found sure homesteads 
For a new race whose destiny is not 
The eternal life of Gods. You are their judge; 
Yours is the kingship