Seminar on Afro-Latin American Studies with Harmonia Rosales: Chronicles of Ori

In CHRONICLES OF ORI, Rosales retells the African myths she grew up with, crafting an epic that extends from the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance. She writes about the powerful, temperamental deities called the Orishas; the founding of Yorubaland by the shrewd leader Oduduwa; the young heroine Eve, born in a time of violence and despair, who would help her people regain their past splendor; and shimmering serpents and monstrous shadows who stalk the lands of mortals. At the center of these linked tales and images is the bond, sometimes fraying, between the Orishas and the humans who worship them.

Harmonia Rosales is an American artist/author from Chicago whose work depicts and
honors African myths and the diaspora. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.