In the ancient rhythm of kingdoms, the death of a ruler is meant to be a passage — grief giving way to continuity. But the burial of Uganda's King Oyo, once crowned as a boy and now mourned as a man, has instead become an opening rather than a closing, as the revelation of a secret son has thrown the line of succession into fierce dispute. What the ceremony was meant to settle, it has instead unsettled, leaving a kingdom to reckon with questions its late king left unanswered.