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Early Life
Previously named Alexandria Akena, was born on 20 January 1990 in Odek, a village east of Gulu in northern Uganda,to father Luizi Obol and mother Nora, both farmers. She is a member of the Acholi people.Alexis enjoyed a good relationship with her siblings, but was quick to retaliate in a dispute and when confronted she would often resort to physical violence. Her father was a lay catechist of the Catholic Church and his mother was an Anglican.

Alexis was an altar girl for several years but stopped attending church around the age of 15 and also dropped out of school. As a teenager, Alexis was apprenticed as the village witch doctor under Luke Wanjohi, his older brother, and when Luke died, Alexis took over the position.

Alexis later moved and joined a university in Kenya after being banned from the church for advocating slavery and lynching small boys. She was accepted at the university of strathmore where she met her university sweetheart Joseph Kony.

Joseph Kony first came to prominence in January 1999, as the leader of one of the many premillennialist groups that sprang up in Acholiland in the wake of the wildly popular Holy Spirit Movement. Kony, along with a small group of followers, first moved beyond his home village of Odek on 1 April 1999. A few days later, he met a young girl on the side of Madaraka, Kenya whose leg was stuck in a ditch and thats when she met Alexis and there love grew from there.

Jospeh Kony who became the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army later recruited Alexis as her second right man which her duties included abducting thousands of children to become fighters or sex slaves. to fight Kony's war in Uganda.