{"id":206952,"date":"2025-09-12T23:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-ondonga-king-nangolo-recalls-refusing-to-crown-gaddafi-king-of-kings\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:00:52","slug":"libya-ondonga-king-nangolo-recalls-refusing-to-crown-gaddafi-king-of-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-ondonga-king-nangolo-recalls-refusing-to-crown-gaddafi-king-of-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Ondonga King Nangolo Recalls Refusing to Crown Gaddafi &#8216;King of Kings&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Ondonga King Fillemon Shuumbwa Nangolo says he refused to sign documents to crown the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi as the &#8216;King of Kings&#8217; of Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In 2008 at the Africa Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Gaddafi got 200 African traditional leaders to declare him the continent&#8217;s ultimate king.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;We want an African military to defend Africa, we want a single African currency, we want one African passport to travel within Africa,&#8221; Gaddafi said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120623.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ondonga King Fillemon Shuumbwa Nangolo says he refused to sign documents to crown the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi as the &#8216;King of Kings&#8217; of Africa. In 2008 at the Africa Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Gaddafi got 200 African traditional leaders to declare him the continent&#8217;s ultimate king. &#8220;We want an African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":206953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,15766,8263,8946,14500,4711,892,20583,257,20586,13345,27941,254],"class_list":["post-206952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-crown","tag-gaddafi","tag-king","tag-kings","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-nangolo","tag-news","tag-ondonga","tag-recalls","tag-refusing","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}