African queen and empress of Portugal

There are problems with chieftains to fill a taxi of relatives and others who need a stadium. Isabel dos Santos is the latter. The soccer World Cup Brazil was 600 guests.

They say that to your wedding with Sindika Dokolo, profession art collector (and son of a businessman from diamonds), visited 800 diners, including a handful of African presidents. They say it is the richest women of Africa, and the Forbes magazine confirmed this last year, although the volume of your wealth is difficult to count - between 2,000 and 4,000 million euros, according to western inquiries- because, say what you will, through the mouth of the little girl in the eyes of his father has never come out.

For then, Isabel he had spent five years with their first business, a bar. But it was not with a night club in the bay of Luanda as Dos Santos has become the richest women of the black continent. The benefits of the glasses are not to possess, in 15 years, banks, cement, televisions, gas stations or launch, this week, a takeover bid of 1,200 million just to buy the voting rights of Portugal Telecom SGPS Brazilian operator in the OI.

The socialist ideology that learned Eduardo dos Santos in the USSR it lasted until the end of the nineties, in the death throes of the civil war, when he had already almost two decades at the forefront of the nation. Then embrace capitalism and began to sign concessions to foreign private capital for the exploitation of mines, and telephone banks, a virgin market in a country with inexhaustible natural resources.

Portugal remains small for the few, but large, local entrepreneurs, and Americo Amorim. The king of the world sees cork in Angola an opportunity for new business. The indent is repeated, the presidency of Angola gives license to a private bank, the BIC. Amorim and puts the money in the shareholding, with a 25 %, Isabel dos Santos. Also as usual, just bad, and finally Amorim sells you your party to the Angolan, which already has 42.5 % of the country's largest bank. Consolidated in Angola, and with real money, you can now make the leap to other African countries (this in Namibia) and Europeans. Dos Santos owns 20% of the Portuguese BIS.