Sindika Dokolo, husband of Africa’s richest woman, Isabel Dos Santos dies in Dubai in a tragic accident while diving

Sindika Dokolo, the esteemed Art collector and husband of Africa’s richest woman, Isabel Dos Santos is dead, aged 48, according to a tweet by Africa Facts Zone.

The diamond man who died in a tragic accident was born in Kinshasa, in former Zaire, today the Democratic Republic of Congo. It held one of the main and most important collections of contemporary African art that had about three thousand works.The son of a Congolese father and a Danish mother, he spent his childhood between Belgium and France. His father, Augustin Dokolo Sanu, was a millionaire in love with African arts.

He studied at the Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague in Paris where he graduated at secondary level and later graduated in Economics, Commerce and Foreign Languages ​​at the Pierre and Marie Curie University.

Sindika Dokolo married in 2002 to businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, eldest daughter of José Eduardo dos Santos, president of Angola between 1979 and 2017.

The couple moved to Dubai in early 2020, following the opening of several investigations into Dokolo, along with his wife, for allegedly diverting properties from the Angolan government, which determined the preventive seizure of shares of Isabel dos Santos and Sindika Dokolo, in companies such as Unitel, BFA, Bic Angola and ZAP.

Isabel dos Santos posted a photo with Dokolo and her youngest son on Twitter, but without any caption. There are comments of grief in response to the tweet.

The millionaire died this Thursday in Dubai in a tragic accident while diving. The news of the death was advanced by Africa Insight. According to the same source, Dokolo was diving when he drowned. This is the press version of the Democratic Republic of Congo, however, Angolan sources indicated that the cause of death was an embolism.

Dokolo owned one of africa’s most contemporary art collections, which included more than 3,000 pieces of art.