Germaine Ahidjo

Germaine Habiba Ahidjo (11 February 1932[1] – 20 April 2021) was a Cameroonian politician and nurse.

[2] Germaine Ahidjo was born in 1932 in Mokolo in the present-day Far North Region of Cameroon.

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.

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 lived.