Adamou Ndam Njoya: Difference between revisions

'''Adamou Ndam Njoya''' (born 8 May 1942<ref name=Gov>[http://www.spm.gov.cm/showgouv.php?module=showindividu&lang=fr&pers=126 "Biographie de M. Adamou Ndam Njoya" 1980] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060117152434/http://www.spm.gov.cm/showgouv.php?module=showindividu&lang=fr&pers=126 |date=17 January 2006 }}</ref><ref name=Bio>[http://www.presidentielle2004.gov.cm/candidats.php?id_cand=13&module=bio&lang=en "Candidate's biography: Adamou Ndam Njoya" 2004] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311041821/http://www.presidentielle2004.gov.cm/candidats.php?id_cand=13&module=bio&lang=en |date=11 March 2007 }}.</ref>) was a Cameroonian politician, lawyer, author, and professor. He was Minister of National Education from 1977 to 1980, and he was still the President of the [[Cameroon Democratic Union]] (UDC, founded in 1991), an opposition party, at the time of his death on March 7, 2020 <ref>[http://www.cameroon-info.net/article/cameroun-carnet-noir-adamou-ndam-njoya-est-mort-365061.html#StartXTions]</ref>. He had just been replaced as Mayor of [[Foumban]] by his wife [[Patricia Tomaïno Ndam Njoya]], position he held since 1996, and from 1997 to 2007 he was a Deputy in the [[National Assembly of Cameroon|National Assembly]]. He unsuccessfully ran as a presidential candidate in the 1992, 2004 and 2018 elections.