I didn’t have the opportunity to spend countless times with Valentim Amões, the businessman who was one of the most visible faces of this Huambo clan, who in one of the brightest moments of the Angolan economy did not hesitate to invest extensively in his homeland.
He lost his life in a fatal accident. Next to one of the children. He was the brother of Segunda Amões, also now deceased, who years later resurfaced with the ASA group, as well as the magnificent Camela Amões in the Central Plateau, considered today by many as a kind of Mecca for the citizens of those parts of Angola, as well as from other parts of the country.
Valentim and Segunda built, over a certain period, what was seen as the main business standard in the central and southern region, although the no less well-known António Mosquito, from the group with the same name, was also there and emerged with enormous grandeur, but before Mbakassy, whose tentacles have extended to other branches in recent times, such as banking, oil, general trade, cleaning and sanitation and others.
Over the years, especially after the arrival of the market economy, several names emerged in the center and south, with almost a gap in the north, where few were those who built business conglomerates worthy of the name.
Of course, attempts were not lacking. And many. However, in the midst of so many, installing mainly in one of the main axes of the country, connecting the North, East and Northeast, Monteiro Pinto Kapunga emerged, the businessman who recently died in Lisbon and was buried in his homeland, Malanje.
Regardless of the love they have always had for the country, Kapunga, the two Amões, Mbakassy, Elias Chimuco, Lumbamba and other Angolans embody what is expected of the children of the land who never lost their originality or the will to bet, above all, on those areas where they saw their umbilical cords buried.
Despite their altruistic attitude and entrepreneurial spirit, little by little many of these young entrepreneurs are leaving the world of the living and with them a vast experience that they built step by step in the business world in Angola.
The funeral of Monteiro Pinto Kapunga, for example, showed for many the spirit that they always expected from those who have Angola as a priority, regardless of whether they have intramural or extramural businesses. There are few investors like him who have made the places where they came to the world areas of interest that can emerge and create wealth for those who were born, grew up or chose it as a stage to do business or live.
There are few who donate for Angola. Very few, some would say, because it was never just a matter of lack of money for many, but of love because some prioritized realities other than those that made them men, powerful, influential and rich.
Kapunga, Amões, Mosquito, Lubamba, Chimuko and very few have shown or have shown that they were raised with a temper that always leads them to believe that Angola must be the initial option, despite the vicissitudes it faces
