Roar of the Lion Head Cane is saturated with magic – African magic. From his birth, Izzi, the protagonist becomes a player in the archetypal battle between good and evil as his maternal grandmother seeks his blood, and his paternal grandfather defends his life. The story moves through the boy’s youth to his initiation and mastery, helped by the Lion Head Cane. Douglas, the storyteller, is a development professional whose life in Africa brings him into contact with magic, especially Izzi’s. Spanning a period of almost three decades, the novel weaves this story of witchcraft within the historical reality of the struggles for independence and post-colonial wars of Mozambique, Liberia, and Angola. It is a story of survival and of understanding the challenges of cultural differences.
作者簡介
Howie Wilson has 40 years of development, emergency and recovery experience in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Region. He started as a schoolteacher in Zambia in the late 1960’s and spent a further ten years in Mozambique working in its Communal Village Program, then as the Canadian Representative and finally in its Peace Process. Over the years Howie, with both first and second hand experiences of African magic, has developed a deep insight and appreciation for the anthropological and cultural dimensions of the many places he has worked and lived as a professional social planner.
