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Chronicles of Ori
- Author
- Harmonia Rosales
- Narrator
- Délé Ogundiran
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 14 October 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
From the acclaimed fine artist Harmonia Rosales, a sweeping retelling of African myth
In Chronicles of Ori, her debut book, Harmonia Rosales retells the African myths she has long treasured, crafting an enthralling epic that spans the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance. She writes of the powerful, temperamental deities called the Orishas; of the founding of Yorubaland by the shrewd leader Oduduwa; of the young heroine Eve, born in a time of violence and despair, who would help her people regain their past splendor; and of shimmering serpents and monstrous shadows who stalk the lands of mortals.
At the center of these linked tales is the bond, sometimes fraying, between the Orishas and the humans who worship them. It was the Orishas who made humans, and who gave them their most precious resource: their Oris, or destinies. A must-listen, Chronicles of Ori will enlighten and delight audiences for years to come.
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Details
- Author
- Harmonia Rosales
- Narrator
- Délé Ogundiran
- Duration
- 8 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9781696620222
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Fiction: general and literary, Fiction: general and literary, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
From the acclaimed fine artist Harmonia Rosales, a sweeping retelling of African myth In Chronicles of Ori, her debut book, Harmonia Rosales retells the African myths she has long treasured, crafting an enthralling epic that spans the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance. She writes of the powerful, temperamental deities called the Orishas; of the founding of Yorubaland by the shrewd leader Oduduwa; of the young heroine Eve, born in a time of violence and despair, who would help her people regain their past splendor; and of shimmering serpents and monstrous shadows who stalk the lands of mortals. At the center of these linked tales is the bond, sometimes fraying, between the Orishas and the humans who worship them. It was the Orishas who made humans, and who gave them their most precious resource: their Oris, or destinies. A must-listen, Chronicles of Ori will enlighten and delight audiences for years to come.
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