Ana Paula dos Santos

Who is Ana Paula dos Santos?

Ana Paula Cristovão Lemos dos Santos is the wife of current President of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos and First Lady of the South-West African state.

Former fashion model and air hostess of the presidential Angolan aeroplane, Ana Paula dos Santos knew her husband during the time in which she was working on presidential flights. They married on 17 May 1991 and are parents of three children, Eduane Danilo dos Santos, Joseana dos Santos and Eduardo Breno dos Santos. Between 1990 and 1994, she completed a state teacher training at the National Institute of Education, Luanda. Later she completed a course of law at the Faculty of Law of the Agostinho Neto University.

A diplomat described the President and First Lady as: "a handsome couple, elegantly and expensively dressed, looking for all the world as though they're living in southern California." In 1997 Ana Paula undiplomatically announced that her five-year-old son would enroll at the Portuguese school in Luanda because of the "bad quality" of state education. She has also tried to make her presence felt in administrative matters; a move which has irritated the political mainstream.