Mbella Sonne Dipoko (February 28, 1936 in Douala – December 5, 2009, in Tiko) was a novelist, poet and painter from Cameroon.
He is widely considered to be one of the foremost writers of literature in English from Cameroon.
[2] As a young man, Dipoko worked for the Cameroon Development Corporation as an accounts clerk in the year 1956.
During this period of employment with the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, he served as their reporter from France.
That same year, he wrote the story "Helping the Revolution",[5][6] which was set in apartheid-era South Africa.