Two brothers from the Chi, here in Ghana

Telie Woods, 45, a Chicago native, recently opened Jerk Soul in Ghana, a restaurant he also ran in St. Louis before moving to Ghana last year. (Photo provided by John W. Fountain)

OYARIFA, Ghana — Africa called him. He could feel it deep down in his soul. I felt the same call, speaking, beckoning, emanating perhaps from our spirit ancestors, whispering, “Come home.”

Or so we imagine. We do not yet fully comprehend it.