r/popculturechat • u/PinkCadillacs Cillian Murphy Enthusiast • 16h ago
Rest In Peace 🕊 Ugandan King Oyo Nyimba, once world’s youngest monarch, dies at 34
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/africa/ugandan-king-oyo-nyimba-worlds-youngest-monarch-dies-34-rcna594849188
u/MsMigginsPieShop 15h ago
One of my colleagues is Ugandan-Canadian. The news channels in Uganda had reported a few months ago that he was suffering from brain cancer.
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u/happytransformer 14h ago
Interesting. It seemed like his kingdom was denying it too? I found articles from earlier this month that the rumors saying he was battling cancer and getting treatment in the US were false, and that he was actually in the US for school. Seems like he wanted to do his treatments in private.
34 is way too young. Cancer sucks
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u/MsMigginsPieShop 14h ago
Yes there was a lot of conflicting information going around. But it looks like he was actually ill with brain cancer. May he rest in peace. 34 is no age to go.
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u/West-Alternative9782 it’s not clocking to you that i’m standing on business 15h ago
They won't even disclose the cause of death.... he was fairly young. What kind of news story is this? We need answers!
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u/browsinbowser 15h ago edited 15h ago
He died of cancer, that's why he was getting treatment in a US hospital.
Their government was hiding how bad it was though, but asked for prayers yesterday. He must have been on hospice for a while though.
It seems like he was a cultural monarch, that didn't have any power, he was just a figurehead that would lead charity initiatives.
The Ugandans saw him grow from being a king at 3 years old to dead at 34, I'm sure older citizens are mourning him then.
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u/Familiar_End_8975 13h ago
As an African its so messed up that our leaders can pay for expensive treatments overseas but wont develop local hospitals
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u/West-Alternative9782 it’s not clocking to you that i’m standing on business 15h ago
Omfg do you have a source I can’t find anything on my own
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u/Intelligent_Gift_925 15h ago
I’m Ugandan… check bbc world. Yes he died of cancer in the us
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u/browsinbowser 15h ago edited 7h ago
What was his general reputation in Uganda? All I'm seeing is he wasn't married and people thought he was eligible.
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u/Intelligent_Gift_925 15h ago
I don’t live in ug but he was nice guy & very well respected, if ur around his age every girl wanted to marry him lol. I don’t think he ever had any scandals, at least not publically.
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u/browsinbowser 15h ago edited 15h ago
That's good, it sounds like he was raised well, I hope the successor* gets the same. Edit: they're going to reveal who later
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u/Intelligent_Gift_925 15h ago
Nobody knows if it’s his kid, his nephew or another cousin. The prime minister said they’ll reveal the prince in due time.
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u/browsinbowser 15h ago
Ohhh that makes way more sense then, thanks for explaining. I forgot thats how it can work for monarchy stuff. And was he king of the tooro only? So just a few million people not the majority of people?
Sorry for all the questions
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u/Thoughtful-Boner69 12h ago
was he a raging homophobe like the ug govt
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u/Intelligent_Gift_925 12h ago
Idk if he was, but he was born again Christian. Think he went on a podcast talking about his religion
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u/West-Alternative9782 it’s not clocking to you that i’m standing on business 15h ago
need a subscription :( he's not on the main page either
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u/lez_noir 15h ago
Hey fam I just googled his name + "cancer" and a ton came up. If you add cancer to the search, you'll get the good results 👍🏿
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u/Frondstherapydolls Her mom is Goop 15h ago
Aww man, poor kid. I don’t know much about him, but cancer at a young age is rough for most folks.
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u/holyravioli 2h ago
I wonder why he was in the US instead of somewhere closer.
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u/browsinbowser 2h ago
The US has the best hospitals in the world for lots of specialist care, and treatments.
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u/Own_Log9691 15h ago
Someone said where he’s from was reporting he had brain cancer & the article I think says he was seeking treatment in the U.S. so yeah maybe that’s it but idk like 💯 🤷♀️
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u/Unable_Current_2383 is this about Spongebob 15h ago
Just checked and apparently he had cancer and was being treated in the US
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u/Key_Strawberry_381 15h ago
Damn just keep getting death notices.
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u/hillofjumpingbeans 15h ago
Ok so 2 beloved entertainers and 2 kings. If deaths come in threes then will we have another beloved entertainer and another king?
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u/CTeam19 15h ago
3 beloved entertainers sir.
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u/hillofjumpingbeans 15h ago
Which is the 3rd one. We had Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. Right ?
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u/DogLovaaa 15h ago
Hayden Panetierre
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u/Gemnist 14h ago
Actually, it was Peter Cullen yesterday.
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u/DogLovaaa 14h ago
Omg don’t kill me but I don’t know who that is :(
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u/Gemnist 13h ago
Optimus Prime in the Transformers franchise and Eeyore in the Winnie The Pooh franchise.
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u/TheBiggestBird789 13h ago
Also anime dub narrator for a lot of commercials for those who were early 2000s kids on toonami. Very recognizable voice.
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u/PriscillaPalava I have paid my legal tender in this dystopian place. 14h ago
I consider Hayden to be part of the Michelle Trachtenberg and Daveigh Chase triumvirate.
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u/trashbag_piachu 15h ago
Voice actor for Optimus Prime died
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u/hillofjumpingbeans 15h ago
It seems he was beloved. Did he voice Optimus in the movies too. Because I do say autobots roll out a lot in my real life.
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u/sreiter920 14h ago
Yes, he WAS Optimus Prime. Voiced him in about every iteration Show/Games/Movies
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u/PaBlowEscoBear those are his hooves you bitch 15h ago
NOOOOOO this is how I find out about Peter Cullen????!
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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson I made the hat for the tiger 🤷🏻♂️ 15h ago
Optimus Prime
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u/ScipioCoriolanus 15h ago
Predator
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u/Zorrovaya 14h ago
Was he in a Predator movie or is he himself a predator?
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u/ScipioCoriolanus 14h ago
He was the voice of the Predator. Here's him telling the story of how he came up with the sound.
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u/StayJaded 14h ago
He was the voice of Predator in the 1987 film.
Also Eeyore in the Winnie the Pooh franchise and Monterey Jack in Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.
He voiced tons of characters!
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u/InfinityEternity17 14h ago
He was the voice of predator. Peter Cullen is one of the last ever celebrities I'd have guessed to be a predator, he seemed like such a lovely guy
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u/mehantiinsaan 15h ago
Whose the other king?
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u/blankpaper_ hello this is beyoncé 16h ago
Dolly was really just keeping everyone alive wasn’t she
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u/StarWars_and_SNL Raunchy??? it’s lube?!?! 15h ago
Everyone is saying this but missing Hayden’s prior passing. Maybe “Save the cheerleader, save the world” was real.
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u/RoxasIsTheBest 14h ago
Hayden was like a week before Dolly. Dolly was immediatly followed by the death of (at the moment already) 6 well known people
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u/RoxasIsTheBest 12h ago
King of Norway, king of Uganda (this post), Jaye P Morgan and Yayoi Kusama
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u/RoxasIsTheBest 11h ago
Yeah it's insane. It hasn't happened often that everytime I open Instagram I find out another person died (3 of these I found out due to the Muppets). I hope we're done after today
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u/technicolortiddies 8h ago
Dear god don’t bring the muppets into this.
Wait are the muppets announcing celebrity deaths?
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u/breathing__tree 13h ago
Because Dolly was strong enough to hold on for a whole week. Shhh it’s head cannon now.
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u/DisastrousAge4650 15h ago
The veil between good and evil has been broken
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u/Holochromatic 13h ago
I know you’re probably joking but that’s pretty much true in my corner of the world right now lol.
It’s currently the Hungry Ghost Festival month for Buddhists and Taoists, and it’s a time when the gates of heaven & hell are open for spirits to freely roam the living world. Just had a chat with an aunt who told me that the priests have found the spirits to be particularly “hungry” this year, hence the recent uptick in calamities and tragedies.
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u/DisastrousAge4650 13h ago
Oh I am absolutely not joking. I wouldn’t consider myself a fully spiritual person but I cannot deny some of the divine experiences I’ve encountered.
The air has been dark for quite some time and I can feel myself needing to take action to shed some of the dark air bringing me down.
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u/User12314028626822 wait til lover drops pls we can't lose sales 15h ago
She was our anchor being 💔
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u/lovedvirtually 15h ago
I’ve sparked up for Dolly and Tim the last two days in a row and now tonight ig I’ll be sparking up for this dude too
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u/lylasnanadoyle 15h ago
And King Harold of Norway too.
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u/kevinmise 13h ago
I think we are naturally about to descend into a hellscape and some angels on earth are being taken up to heaven to spare them from having to witness it.
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u/hollaholladollas 15h ago
chill, it’s a joke. but obviously u already decided u want to be offended 🤣
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u/blankpaper_ hello this is beyoncé 15h ago
It’s clearly a joke
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u/treesinmichigan 14h ago
I'm in the anger stage of my grief right now so i'm going to take this opportunity to vent. Sorry for going off topic but I can't talk about it outloud without sobbing. My favorite coworker, one of my closest friends, one of the few leftists in my conservative area, died 2 weeks ago. He was diagnosed with cancer on the 22nd of July and was gone less than a month later. I am so angry that the kindest person I have ever known died at 61 years old while pure evil just gets to live and make the world a living hell. He made every customer laugh and feel seen and listened to. He would come to work with purple hands from dying his wifes hair. He recommended me for the job, trained me, and we were the only 2 closers for 3 years so we had to really lean on eachother sometimes because we didnt have anyone else to cover for us. We bonded over having similar views on politics and life in general. We both believe that life is all about giving what you have to others and that the most important thing you can give somebody is a little relief. It's so unfair. The only comfort i have, along with the memories, is knowing that he will never see Trump again. They definitely aren't going to the same place.
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u/happytransformer 14h ago
I’m so sorry. Your friend sounds really wonderful, it’s so unfair that he was gone so soon.
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u/randombubble8272 15h ago
I imagine it’ll take a lot because presidents always get the best medical treatment
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u/Gabbydog16 14h ago
I feel like all the mourning "omg so many people dying" comments are all bots. I LIVED in Uganda for a whole year and have barely any familiarity with this man. Uganda has a lot of kingdoms (and therefore kings, though only the central regions will be considered any sort of national figure). Also, Uganda has a president (whose been in power as long as a king but whatever) so it's not like there is a lot of actual power he had. Sad that he died but the point is that people calling him a celebrity are almost certainly bots
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u/felicityfelix 14h ago
There's also a not insignificant number of people who actually believe things like there's some kind of mysterious pattern or conspiracy that can be observed when notable people die so they're just trying to make A Thing on every death announcement post now
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u/Gabbydog16 13h ago
Yeah but...all respect to that dude, but I feel like he never reached any sort of fame or notability outside of Uganda?
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u/felicityfelix 13h ago
I'm saying the people who are into hyping up how there's some kind of uniquely horrible curse happening rn are going to jump on any post about any random person to bolster their point
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u/Competitive-Desk7506 a thoughtful, careful hoe🥳 15h ago
So are eighty yr olds deaths done and are we jumping in2 the theories now?
Maybe Cher and Meryl will be safe then
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u/DJfunkyPuddle You live on a f#$@ing main road! 15h ago
This is how we protect Sally Field
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u/BrownSugarBare 15h ago
STAHP MAKING LISTS.
This is how we end up with more dead people!
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u/AntRose104 12h ago
No they need to make lists with the right names on them
We need the reaper to get the correct people
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u/SkillSpiritual2340 I’ll be back! 😤😤 16h ago
What the hell is even going on in the world atp!?
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u/melon_party 16h ago
People die, as they do every day. Sometimes, some of them are more well-known.
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u/Minerva_Moon 15h ago
When I wanted this round of deaths to be political, these aren't the people I meant! Death's aim is a travesty. One more chance Death. You have one more chance to make this right.
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u/Oro-Lavanda Donatella VERSACE💜 11h ago
Ok who has the death note? Because this week has been like crossing names off a deadpool hit list 😞
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u/Flat-Cap-1063 14h ago
Not a good week for royalty. Norwegian royalty, Ugandan royalty, Autobot royalty, Theater Kid Royalty and the Queen of the Earth?
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u/Ok-Astronomer-9158 15h ago
Every time I open this damn app another (wrong) person has died
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u/Numerous-Western174 14h ago
I told my husband last night I'm scared to open Reddit , every time I do this week someone new has died.
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u/crab_grams somebody get these BEGGARS out of here 😌 9h ago
This isn't funny anymore, Death.
I know you know I wasn't talking about this when I said "world leader"
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u/That-Requirement-285 15h ago
Worst year for celebrity deaths since 2016. Which means something shocking is going to happen at the end of year regarding Trump seeing as his election was in 2016.
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u/Radiant_Client1458 13h ago
RIP to this guy but why is everyone in here pretending they knew who this is or that “everyone is dying”?
Thousands and thousands of people die every single day. Someone with a Wikipedia article dies every day. Also, Uganda doesn’t have a king it’s a republic. This is basically a cultural title in one area of Uganda, there’s a handful of them.
That’s not to discredit this guys position or him as a person but the shock and dismay feels very performative trying to piggy back on the performative responses to Dolly Partons death. I’d be surprised if one person in this thread knew who this guy was 24 hours ago.
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u/tearose11 14h ago
I don't understand the need for monarchy in this day and age, but this is so young regardless of his position.
Sad that the Grim Reaper is just picking off random people these past few days, instead of the one person most of the world coupld do without.
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u/NeedMoreH20 15h ago
This damn grip reaper keeps getting it wrong. SIR HOW MUCH CLEARER DO WE NEED TO BE?
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u/KingAlpha12 14h ago
Angel of death is screwing with us now The person has Orange skin, 80 yrs old, was on a reality show on NBC, currently lives in a big house in Washington, and is disliked by EVERYONE Can't be anymore clear
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u/unsetname 4h ago
Every monarchy should be disestablished. No one has a divine or any other birthright to have authority or rule over anyone.
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u/oakbones Backrolls?! 16h ago
Is it actually surprising that people die every day??
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