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In Angola, Family Buries Polygamist 'Big Dad'

Armando Chicoca

   Before he was laid to rest Sunday, the Angolan man known as Pai Grande,
   or Big Dad, drew a crowd of at least 1,000 people -- including most, if
   not all, of his 156 surviving children and 250 grandchildren
   --to'¯'¯pay their respects.

   [1]Mourners for Francisco Tchikuteny Sabalo embraced, wept, sang and
   stood shoulder to shoulder, despite calls for social distancing and a
   presidential ban on gatherings of 50 people or more during the COVID-19
   pandemic.

   Tchikuteny, who was in his early 70s, died last Tuesday of prostate
   cancer, relatives told VOA's Portuguese Service. He had sought
   treatment in Luanda and elsewhere more than a year ago, said one of his
   sons, Lumbaneny Sabalo, but decided to return home so that "if God
   called him, at least he would die beside the children and their
   mothers."

   He was "a complete human being" who prized family and championed
   education, one speaker said during the service, held beneath
   sun-screening canopies on arid Giraul do Meio, known locally as
   Mungongo Island, near the southern port city of Namibe.

References

   1. https://www.voaportugues.com/a/pai-grande-do-namibe-foi-a-enterrar/5380680.html

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