She was born in
Goma, in the eastern part of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1987, to "Jacky Kahara Laini" and a father who was a businessman. Her mother was a singer and tailor. Theluji's father died in an automobile accident when she was four years old. The family, which included Theluji, two siblings and their mother, relocated to
Kinshasa, the capital and largest city in DR Congo. In 1993, when she was six years old, the family visited Kenya, but they returned to DR Congo. In 1996, when the
First Congo War that removed
Mobutu Sese Seko from power broke out, the family took refugee in
Nairobi. Alicios attended St. Mary's Academy, Nairobi for her high school education. She then left Kenya to attend
Blekinge Institute of Technology, where she graduated with a
Bachelor of Science in
Economics. She also holds a
Master of Science in Business Management from an institution in
Sweden. ==Career==