Bounama Camille SYLLA, is among the 50 most influential African personalities in the UEMOA region. On a shortlist of 150 African leaders, he was selected in the Top 50 of the Confidentiel Afrique Special Issue of September 2020. His journey is made of perspiration, self-sacrifice, intelligence and vision. A young leader with futuristic ambition.
Born in Tamba (buffer border zone in the east of Senegal), the life of this boy, the youngest of 8 children, hangs on a veritable Ariadne’s thread. Almost, it’s the extraordinary story of a young Senegalese, a former undocumented migrant on the banks of the Seine, who became an icon. At the cost of perspiration, good-natured patience and calibrated intelligence. His journey is fascinating. Bounama SYLLA is the prototype of young Africans who quickly understood that the fiber of community integration in France could be a great recipe. In this, Camille is a good laboratory.
Self-taught, easy to approach, with refined taste and full of energy, the man who has come to be nicknamed the “blessed” child of the suburbs, was at the origin of several initiatives and, organized more of 20 projects in France.
Supported by renowned French personalities, in its initiatives dedicated to the youth of African immigrant children, the gem from Levallois Perret, thinks big. He launched the famous Salon des Cultures Urbaines project, which was pitched.
Network man and young business leader, Camille Sylla is the General Director of SMART CITY AFRICA in Dakar which employs 200 people. It is a parking management company, in partnership with town halls and municipalities in the city of Dakar. A project that comes at the right time and changes the face of a congested, asphyxiated capital. SMART CITY AFRICA is a subsidiary of the French parking giant, PARKEON.
His mission at the head of this company is to organize the parking sectors and regulate the occupation of public space in the capital.
In the starting blocks, a book project entitled “the French Dream exists”. Camille Bounama SYLLA will take advantage of these next sheets to give keys to young Africans, caught in the grip of pessimism of their French adventure.
