Maryland Lawyer Reveals How DNA Test Led Her To Become A Ghanaian Fetish Priestess

Owens also challenged the widely held belief in Ghana that traditional shrines and their spiritual powers cannot exist beyond Africa or cross large bodies of water.

She explained that what began as a search for her ancestry turned into a five-year spiritual initiation that took her from the United States to a village near Koforidua, where she completed her training before becoming an Okomfuor.

She argued that many African spiritual traditions were carried to the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade, making it possible for those practices to continue outside the continent.