Some African rulers had gone public with their power… Morocco's king, Lesotho's monarch, the sultans of Zanzibar. Others moved in the shadows. Rex discovered that in Nigeria, behind the billion-dollar oil companies, sat the descendants of Hausa emirs and Yoruba kings. In Ethiopia, the bloodline of Haile Selassie had not disappeared; it had simply moved into diplomacy and international banking.
Colonialism had supposedly broken Africa's rulers, but in reality, it had forced them to adapt. Many were educated in London or Paris, where they learned not just Western governance but how to maintain influence without needing official titles.
And those who resisted? Rex saw their names on old intelligence reports. They had been exiled. Assassinated. Or given ceremonial positions that kept them out of "real" politics.
