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Sindika Dokolo, 48, was born in Kinshasa, in the former Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Married to the businesswoman and daughter of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos since 2002, Dokolo is said to have been the victim of cardiac arrest and drowning, according to various Congolese media.
The businessman had four children as a result of his marriage to Isabel dos Santos.
“It was during a dive that you left for eternity, a habitual activity that took you out of the fight and out of your loved ones,” Michée Mulumba, personal assistant to the head of state, Felix Tshisekedi, lamented on her Twitter account.
It was during a dive that you were gone for eternity. A habitual activity that separated you from your struggle, from your loved ones … Rest in peace my dear @SindikaDokolo! pic.twitter.com/8wnQv3DKtw
– Micah Mulumba (@ mimul20) October 29, 2020
On her Twitter account, Isabel dos Santos posted a photo of the couple without captions. In the comments there are several followers of the businesswoman who express their condolences.
– Isabel Dos Santos (@isabelaangola) October 29, 2020
Sindika Dokolo was the greatest collector of contemporary African art, a taste he inherited from his father, Augustin Dokolo Sanu, a banker who died in 2001. In 2016 he bought Casa Manoel de Oliveira, in Porto. In this space we will promote networks of artistic reflection and strengthen the ties between Portugal and Angola, Europe and Africa, in an ode to art as a unifying element of peoples and countries ”, Sindika Dokolo underlined then.
“I don’t just collect African artists. I don’t have a collection of African art, but I do have a collection of African art. I think the added value of the contemporary African art scene is to provide a sensitive and intelligent perspective on an ever-changing continent,” told Business in 2013.
As a businessman, he was a member of the board of directors of the Angolan cement company Nova Cimangola and also of Amorim Energia, which has an indirect stake of 33.34% in Galp, and a shareholder of the luxury jewelry company De Grisogono.
Sindika Dokolo has a degree in Economics, Commerce and Foreign Languages from the Pierre and Marie Curie University.
In 2016, Sindika Dokolo gave Negócios their first interview in Portugal.
Reread the interview here
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