Angola stripped Isabel dos Santos of a $2 billion empire. She now posts poolside videos from Dubai
Billionaires Africa | 28.05.2026 12:07
She was born in Baku, in what was then Soviet Azerbaijan, in April 1973, the eldest daughter of a young Angolan student named Jose Eduardo dos Santos who was studying petroleum engineering on a Soviet scholarship. He would return home, join the independence movement, survive a civil war and rule Angola for 38 consecutive years. She would grow up mostly in London, study electrical engineering at King's College, and become the wealthiest woman Africa had ever produced.
