20/08/2024
Norwich, GB 19 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

JOSE EDUARDO dos SANTOS, aged 79

A committed Marxist he fought for Angolan independence. When this was achieved he became President and a dictator, making himself the richest man in Africa.

SHEILA PAINE, aged 92

An artist who abandoned her studies for love, she became a world expert on embroidery after a family tragedy, travelling throughout the world’s dangerous places in search of new textiles.