18 April 2010 04:00 am
A king of of Ivory Coast wears ceremonial attire as he attends the crowning ceremony of Ugandan King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV in Fort Portal, Uganda in April. The young king had officially succeeded to the throne at the age of three when his father died of a heart attack in 1995, but coronation takes place only upon reaching adulthood. Despite Oyo’s apparent ambivalence regarding his official duties and the anachronism of a Jay-Z loving, Arsenal-supporting 18-year-old-king banging drums and blessing spears, no one interviewed on Saturday dismissed the importance of his job, or the role of his kingdom in modern Uganda. AFP