🇧🇪🤯 When Toby Alderweireld scored this incredible goal in the 94th minute to win Royal Antwerp's first league title in 66 YEARS. ✅
It is one of the craziest moments in Belgian football history. 🏆✨
🚨 BREAKING:
The International Court of Justice calls on Israel to return the occupied territories, including Jerusalem, and compensate the Palestinians.
What the Babiito are doing springs from a place of vanity, not legitimacy. The global fascination with Tooro did not come from the institution itself, it came from a child / young innocent King with the name Oyo and yet a Mutooro not a Northerner. Without him, Tooro would still have a neglected palace with little national attention, and the passing of any other cultural leader (outside the Kabaka) would not command this level of national or international mourning.
Tooro’s elevated status exists because of two people:
➡️the Queen Mother, whose discipline (or lack of it) and strategy shaped the institution, and
➡️Her son, whose charisma, grooming, and presence made him a global brand.
People are not mourning “the King of Tooro.” They are mourning King Oyo Nyimba Iguru Rukidi IV: the individual who defined the identity of the Kingdom for an entire generation.
Look at Bunyoro: it has a King and a Prime Minister, yet national visibility is minimal. When did the public last see the King of Bunyoro? Or hear from him. In this era, Oyo was their King — not just by title, but by influence, image, and cultural resonance. He was a brand unto himself, and yes, his grooming and appearance mattered because they shaped how the world perceived Tooro.
Whatever one thinks of the Queen Mother, she raised him into the man and monarch he became. That alone demands respect. Without her and without him, Tooro would not occupy the place it does today. And if they continue with this Kijanangoma, they will go back to oblivion. They are better off installing a son of Oyo and continue milking the fascination. On the other hand they may never get it back because of how the whole transition has materialized.
Life is strange. For years, the Kijanamgomas challenged the legitimacy of the late King Oyo’s reign. Now, in a cruel twist of fate, one of them succeeds him. It’s fair to conclude that the succession dispute will move from the palace to the courts of law.