Kate Fotso

Kate Kanyi-Tometi Fotso is a Cameroonian businesswoman who founded the largest cocoa exporter in Cameroon. Fotso, according to Forbes Africa, is the richest woman in Cameroon and the 20th richest person in the African Francophonie.

Career Fotso has been involved in the cocoa industry for more than 20 years and has been called the "iron lady of the cocoa sector". She was married to André Fotso, a Cameroonian businessman who founded the TAF Investment Group and was head of the Cameroonian Employers' Association. She has the 20th largest fortune in the African Francophonie and is the first woman to ever be ranked in the top 30 in the African Francophonie or Sub-Saharan Africa. She has also been named as one of the top ten most influential people in Cameroon by the French edition of Slate Magazine.