Lina Pembe Bologna

ABOUT LINA PEMBE BOLOGNA

Matriarch of the powerful Pembes, a political Democratic Republic of Congo family famous on social media. She is the owner of Lina Shops in Kinshasa, a chain of outlets that distribute Zara garments throughout Central Africa, and Lina Cafe.

She has her bachelor degree in Commercial and Financial Sciences.

She is also the first vice-president of the Alliance of Congolese-Green Ecologists.

She's the daughter of an Italian expatriate father and a Congolese Métis mother from Goma, North Kivu. Her husband is politician Didace Pembe. Together they have seven daughters, whose names all end with the letter 'a' - Soraya, Mareva, Raïssa, Jessica, Sonya, Alicia and Marica.

Like Rainbeau Harmony Mars and Linda Tawil , she is an entrepreneur who uses social media to promote her lifestyle.