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Joséphine Guidy-Wandja

was born in 1945

Joséphine Guidy-Wandja was the first African woman with a Doctorat 3ème cycle in mathematics (Paris VI), the first African woman with a Ph.D. in mathematics (Abidjan) and the first African woman to become a professor of mathematics in a university (Abidjan).

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Guidy-Wandja/