User:DavidHermane/Baba Ahmadou Danpullo

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 * name              = Baba Amadou Danpullo
 * image             = Baba Ahmadou Danpullo.jpg
 * birth_date        = 1950
 * birth_place       = Cameroon

Baba Ahmadou Danpullo is a Cameroonian businessman born in 1950.He is the richest man in French-speaking Africa south of the Sahara in 2019 according to Forbes Afrique,.

Childhood and beginnings
A member of the Fula ethnic group, Baba Ahmadou Danpullo is a Muslim. He grew up in a modest family, and started out as a truck driver and owner of a few stalls. Having obtained import licenses for rice and flour, and a substantial bank loan, he began importing.

Activities and career
It is one of Cameroon's largest operators, active in several sectors of the economy.

He has made a fortune in real estate, and invested in agrifood, telecommunications and transport...

He is a shareholder in Nexttel, Cameroon's 3rd largest cell phone operator, in which he controls a 30% stake through his subsidiaryentreprise Bestinvet Cameroon (BestCam) .But Danpullo is best known in his homeland for his vast tea plantations in Ndawara, in the North-West region, which enable Ndawara Tea Estates to export Cameroon tea abroad. He has also branched out into communications, setting up the DBS (Danpullo Broadcasting System) television channel.

He is a shareholder in public companies such as Sodecoton and Aéroports du Cameroun (ADC), and took over the tea business of Cameroon Tea Estates (CTE) as part of a stormy privatization.

But apart from agribusiness and telecoms, Cameroon's richest man is credited with countless real estate assets in Nigeria, France, Switzerland and South Africa, including two malls in Cape Town and Johannesburg's Marble Towers, a 32-storey, 152-meter-high building, the 3rd tallest tower in Nelson Mandela's homeland.

Works, awards and recognition
According to the African edition of the American magazine Forbes, he is the richest man in French-speaking Africa south of the Sahara, with a fortune estimated at around 547 billion FCFA.

In 2009, Baba Ahmadou Danpullo donated an envelope of 100 million CFA francs to the ruling CPDM party.