Germaine Ahidjo

Germaine Ahidjo, (born 1922), is a Cameroonian politician. She is the wife of the first president of the Cameroon, Ahmadou Ahidjo. She was thus the First Lady of Cameroon from 1960 until 1982.

Germaine Ahidjo (1979)

Biography

Germaine Habiba Ahidjo was born in Mokolo in 1922 to Hawa and Yaya Boubawa.

In 1942, she obtained her certificate of studies in Yaoundé. She later joined the Girls College of Douala, today New-Bell High School.

In 1947, she was awarded a scholarship to France, where she graduated as a state nurse in 1952 and specialized in tropical diseases.[1][2]

She became friend with Ahmadou Ahidjo in 1955 and they were married on August 17, 1956. They had three daughters: Babette, Aissatou and Aminatou. She also has a son, Daniel Toufick, born before her marriage with Ahidjo. Mohamadou Badjika Ahidjo, now a deputy and a visiting ambassador, is the son of Ahidjo with his first wife, Ada Garoua. After the resignation of her husband in 1982 and her death sentence in absentia as a result of her supposed involvement in the failed coup of 1984, they settled in Dakar, Senegal, where she still lives. Her husband died on 30 November 1989. She has since been campaigning for her official rehabilitation, including the repatriation of her ashes to Cameroon.

References
  1. Madeleine, Tchuinte (2014). Grandes figures féminines du Cameroun. Yaounde: Minresi. pp. 21–22.
  2. "Wikiwix's cache". archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on 2010-05-14. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
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