Orisha Ogun is believed by Aliyite Muslims to be an African iteration or continuation of Imam Ali in the land of the Yoruba people of Western Africa. He may have also visited the Native Americans of North America, with Carolina Parakeets as his winged messengers who repeated dawah knowledge and spread it by the wing by flying far away and mimicking Imam Ali/Orisha Ogun's spiritual sermons.
Imam Ali was the first caliph, Ogun was the first Orisha, an Aliyite Muslim is a son or daughter of Ogun, two in one, the first of all. Imam Ali is Orisha Ogun.