A king who was crowned before he could understand what a crown meant has died at thirty-four, leaving behind a kingdom of two million people and a question no one has yet answered aloud: who comes next? Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV of Uganda's Tooro Kingdom, once the world's youngest reigning monarch, passed away from cancer in the United States, his body returning home to a palace, a mourning people, and a succession dispute that has set senior royal figures against the very prime minister who served him. In the space between a king's last breath and his burial, the ancient machinery of
Uganda's youngest king laid to rest as succession dispute deepens
King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV died at age 34 from aggressive cancer, leaving a kingdom of over 2 million people without their reigning monarch.