In the ancient hills of western Uganda, a kingdom paused to bury a king who had worn the crown since before he could speak — Oyo Nyimba, who became the world's youngest monarch at three years old in 1995, was laid to rest at thirty-four after dying of cancer in the United States. Thousands gathered in Fort Portal in white tunics and bark cloth to honor a man whose life had been shaped entirely by inherited duty. Yet even as the earth received him, the question of who would carry that duty forward fractured the royal family, pitting a committee's chosen successor against a family's claim of an