FALSE KAMANI in South America KAMANI is the indigenous man who takes care of the plantations of the haciendas. In English it means 'malabar almond'. Mahmud Abdullah Kamani (born 1964) is a British billionaire businessman, co-founder and co-CEO of the Boohoo group (with Carol Kane) a holding company of 440 companies founded in 2006 and dedicated to young fashion. Boohoo is the English onomatopoeia of a baby's noisy cry.