The Buganda Kings' Tombs Are Built From Plants

The tombs that house Buganda kings in Uganda are built from vegetal materials, and Aeon's video frames them as places that bridge the realms of the living and the dead. Royal tombs usually make an argument about permanence — stone, marble, something engineered to outlast everyone who commissioned it. A tomb assembled from plants bets differently: the memory of a king rests on material that will not hold its shape the way granite does. Whether that perishability is a flaw or the entire point is the interesting question the structure poses, and it is not one a mausoleum of cut stone ever has to answer.