About Dorcas Idowu
Born 1903. Dorcas Idowu was a Cameroonian politician.
Dorcas Ewokolo Idowu (born 27 August 1903) was a Cameroonian politician. She was the first woman to sit in the Southern Cameroons House of Assembly, and the first female parliamentarian in what is now Cameroon.
Biography Idowu was born in 1903, the daughter of Joseph Lifanjo Ekema. She married Thomas Faguma Idowu and worked as a teacher at the government school in Buea.
A member of the Kamerun National Congress,
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Who was Dorcas Idowu?
Cameroonian politician
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Dorcas Idowu was born on 27 August 1903.
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Dorcas Idowu was Cameroonian.
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