The Snake Doctor
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Ghana, in the forms of the two sisters I had dealt with during the course of my first trip, had changed radically.
Comfort Lartey and Grace Vivian Hlover were as different as proverbial day and night, when I first met them at the wise ol’ age of eighteen. Comfort was about as radical as the Ghanaian circumstances would allow her to be.
“I don’t care what the Europeans say! It’s all a crock of crap!”
Grace was at the other end of the pole. “Think about it, Kojo, if the English had not come to Ghana, we would still be having tribal wars and worshipping fetish gods.”
I can’t say what happened because I wasn’t there to see how the change had occurred, but A Change had occurred. Comfort, the radical bohemian had become a religious nut, a conservative.
“Kojo, I can’t do with you what we used to do because Jesus wouldn’t like that.”
“If you don’t tell Him, I won’t tell Him and everything will be cool.”
“You are blaspheming and you may be forced to pay for your transgressions by spending an eternity in Hell.”
As my lawyer friend, Horace Hennessey Harper, used to say – I absconded from Comfort “without any malice aforethought, forthwith.” Grace took up the slack.
“Oh Kojo, I am so pleased that you have returned.”
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““Snake Doctor” is a modern, African-American Faustian epic. The story is of a man who made a supernatural deal with a wizard in the Equatorial Rain Forest of Northern Ghana. The deal that was made guaranteed this man that he would receive the money he needed to make the break out film he yearned to make. The proper sacrifices were made, the money poured in and the filmmaker became an international success. But all does not remain sweetness ‘n light. The shadow of the wizards influence remains a mental section that the filmaker’s son must deal with. It takes grit, determination and hard work to overcome the obstacles, but the deeds are done and we are led to believe that all will be well.
About the Author
Odie Hawkins an alumnus of the Watts Writers Workshop, (established by Budd Schulberg). His instructors were Louise Meriwether, John . W. Bloch, Al Jenner, Robert Lewin and Harlan Ellison. Hawkins is the author of twenty-eight novels, website: www.odiehawkins.com or google his name.