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Teenage African King Leads Dual Life

Written by News One on March 16, 2010 4:30 pm

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From CNN:

Fort Portal, Uganda — At first glance, he looks like any other 17-year-old.

He bobs his head to rapper Jay-Z, plays video games and reads the “Twilight” vampire books. When he’s not doing homework, he kicks a soccer ball in his backyard.

Yet looks can be deceiving.

People in this corner of western Uganda know the young man as King Oyo, one of the world’s youngest ruling monarchs. The teen king rules over more than 2 million people in the Tooro kingdom, one of four kingdoms in Uganda that conjure images of pre-colonial Africa.

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King Oyo lives for part of the year in a palace perched on a hill in Fort Portal, a place where bicycles stacked with bananas race past ramshackle huts in the shadow of a snow-capped mountain. He also has a palace in the bustling Ugandan capital, Kampala, where he studies at a private school while soldiers stand guard.

Friends at school greet him with hugs and handshakes, but back home, subjects kiss his feet while sprawled before him on the ground, as if they were doing push ups.

“I still find it a little uncomfortable when people bow, especially the older ones,” says the king, whose full name is Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV. “My friends at school (could not) care less that I’m a king. They like me for who I am, not for what I am.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AllBizSumPlay_1/ AllBizSumPlay_1

    … Check That Out .

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/keil008/ keil008

    Check that out indeed….
    I liked the fact that they refered to him as a “King” and not a “Chief”….
    MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ChocolateCoveredLips/ ChocolateCoveredLips

    thumbs up

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sbufford/ sbufford

    that is good we all come from kings long ago

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shinobi_Kokujin/ Shinobi_Kokujin

    reminds me of a fellow we had in the Navy….we didnt know he was a African prince till his royal parents and fam showed up to a ball all decked out in gold haha

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlackMiss62/ BlackMiss62

    Awww…isn’t that cute! He’s a KING! So, where’s his mother? Any siblings and why isn’t he on OPRAH or Larry KING, dam.mit?!? LOL!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/manofsteel35/ manofsteel35

    Will he be “Coming to America” soon?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    manofsteel35… LMAO! I didn’t even think of that one but that was GOOD! LOL!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Frenchtipz87/ Frenchtipz87

    *sigh*…I was waiting for the “coming to america” joke lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KingZkwan/ KingZkwan

    In pre-Colonial Africa and pre-pre-Colonial ruled Women Kings throughout Africa. The male king is a new phenomenon and that isn’t talked about much.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    my naga got a blue Fez with a feather in it !!!

    blue is a high vibration on the chakra scale, energetically
    I wonder what those flowers represent

    anyway, I hope his people are raising him up to be a good king…good in the sense of bringing justice & prosperity to his people, not “good” as in being a neo-colonial lackey like many of our negro-leaders.

    and lets pray that the CIA & “AFRICOM” dont make a puppet out of this beautiful young brother….. :)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    Too bad America is obsessed with the Black male doing NEGATIVE things…this won’t be in YOUR morning paper SMH…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Pknyght/ Pknyght

    he better not start dating any kardasshians…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shippper2009/ shippper2009

    I wonder how the 2 million people in his kingdom are living. Can they also listen to Jay Z and play video games or is the highlight of their day kissing the king’s feet?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Yahinus/ Yahinus

    JazzWatch.. you are so right! I was so inspired when I read this story! I’m glad to see that they didn’t get us all; that we still have some original kings and queens in Africa. That’s great for our kids to see and you are so right that they won’t publicize things like this in our media.

    To Pknyght & BlackMiss 62: If he messed with a Kardasshian, then he would make the national media, (maybe not Oprah) but definitely Fox, CNN, and TMZ. That’s sad huh?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/FUKKHATERSIMRICH/ FUKKHATERSIMRICH

    THIS IS JUST SO GOOD TO SEE AND READ! MY BLACK MEN AND WEMAN KNOW YOUR WORTH! WE WHERE ALL BORN IN TO ROYALTY AND DONT FORGET IT!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/FlyJones/ FlyJones

    Totally cool ;)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GodPrincezz81/ GodPrincezz81

    He only 17? oh no I was going marry him! lol …just kidding suk! Yea , if any pastors can be young ,then African kings can be young too. God to be glorious! He surely works in a mysterious way….doesn’t He?

    I know a Pastor that is 14. No surprise to me if king is less than 17 age.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Muyama/ Muyama

    @ PKnyght, we in the motherland are not obsessed with the outside,inside comes first. n if both the outside n the inside are attractive the better. someone like kim kardashian is considered a w***e here, n no single man would want to date her n be associated with her.it dosen’t matter how hot u r

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mizz214/ mizz214

    I pray God guides his thoughts so he and his people can grow together. Love this story.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gatekeepa/ Gatekeepa

    As King he needs to speak up about the closet homosexual minister showing gay porn to children in church..and strike down the ideal to impose a law that even if someone is “suspected” of being homosexual should be put to death..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/momono3/ momono3

    I bet this is just how King Tut looked.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ada-ide/ Ada-ide

    @Gatekeepa…Do you really think that is what he needs to focus on? The sexual preferences of Men instead of how to ensure that his people has access to good quality education,good governance and excellent Health System? Not all cultures are so sexaully obsessed as we have it in the West. So let the Young King do what should come ultimate for his people.

    @KingZkwan…You are so right. The Europeans came and destroyed most of the cultures of the AFrican people most especially the ascension to the throne for Women..Read more on Queen Amina of Zaria Infact let me give you a link http://www.edofolks.com/html/pub41.htm

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Angilix/ Angilix

    @momono3, now that’S FUNNY!!!

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