A multidisciplinary Artist, Griot, and Spiritual Guide.
Artist • Griot • Bàbáláwo • Spiritual Guide
About King Alejaibra
King H. Alejaibra Badu is a multifaceted artist, griot, Bàbáláwo, and spiritual guide with over 22 years of experience working at the intersections of mental, emotional, and spiritual freedom. Rooted in ancestral wisdom and lived practice, his work centers helping individuals and communities trust themselves, reclaim their purpose, and live with intention in the present moment.
He is the founder of Alejaibra’s House Works, an international healing arts and spiritual society with roots in Historic Anacostia, Washington, DC, and Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria.
Lineage & Early Life
Born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, King Alejaibra comes from a distinguished lineage of indigenous healing practitioners, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists. His ancestors were free people and freedom fighters, known for financing and supporting movements dedicated to Black liberation and self-determination. This legacy of action, generosity, and responsibility continues to inform his life’s work.
Highly intuitive from an early age, King Alejaibra was raised in a family environment that nurtured spiritual sensitivity, intellectual excellence, and cultural pride.
Education & Early Recognition
A recognized child prodigy, King Alejaibra graduated high school at age 16, earning the highest test scores in state history.
In 2000, he gained national attention after being discovered by Queen Latifah, who cast him in the world’s first race-based reality television program, Trading Places, produced in collaboration with Warner Brothers.
At the height of early fame, King Alejaibra made the deliberate decision to walk away from celebrity life, declining an offer to pursue Africana Studies at New York University in order to preserve his spiritual integrity and authentic path.
Artistic Skills
Music Composition Sound Journeys Spoken-Word Written Works
Visual Art Ritual Curation Personal Storytelling Community Engagement
Education
1983 - 2026
The University of Ori
King Alejaibra is not educated, validated, or authorized by Western academic institutions. His education is rooted in Orí (the inner head), destiny, and guiding intelligence that governs one’s life. He is a lifelong student of Orí, shaped through lived experience, ancestral instruction, spiritual discipline, and intuitive trust. His learning has unfolded through observation, initiation, trial, service, failure, devotion, and remembrance rather than classrooms or credentials.
Guided by Orí, King Alejaibra has traveled, studied, apprenticed, taught, and served across cultures and generations allowing life itself to be the teacher. His education is cumulative, embodied, and ongoing, informed by spirit, community, and consequence. The University of Orí is not a place, but a practice: to listen deeply, to trust what is revealed, and to live in alignment with one’s destiny. This form of education does not seek approval. It seeks clarity, responsibility, and truth.
Artistic Interests
King Alejaibra’s artistic interests live at the intersection of sound, story, ritual, and memory. His work explores how art functions as a living technology for healing, remembrance, and liberation. His interests include:
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Sound as medicine — music, drumming, chanting, and sonic environments that regulate the nervous system and open spiritual awareness
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Storytelling and griot traditions — preserving memory, lineage, and cultural truth through voice and narrative
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Ritual and ceremonial art — art that is practiced, not displayed; offerings, gestures, and embodied acts
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Ancestral memory and lineage — how history, bloodline, and spirit move through the body and creative expression
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Poetic language and prayer — words as invocation, reflection, and healing
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Embodied presence — breath, stillness, movement, and the body as an instrument of knowing
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Visual symbolism — minimal, symbolic imagery rooted in cosmology, nature, and sacred geometry
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Community based creation — art made with people, not just for them
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Living archives — art as documentation of moments, teachings, and lived truth rather than fixed products