Gladys Anoma (1930 – October 26, 2006) was a scientist, professor and politician from the Ivory Coast in West Africa.
[2] She earned her doctorate in tropical botany[3] from the Sorbonne, in Paris, France, and she also visited Tunisia, Germany, England, Ethiopia, Morocco and Ghana before she reached 37 years of age.
A newspaper report about a five-week trip she made to Kingston, New York in August 1968, with 11 other African women leaders, states that her husband was, at that time, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and that the couple had four children.
The purpose of the trip was to explore "distaff matters in America and Africa.
[4] A remembrance ceremony was held at Saint Jacques Church Two Plateaux for Anoma in 2016, 10 years after her death.