Adamou Ndam Njoya (8 May 1942 – 7 March 2020) was a Cameroonian politician, lawyer, author, and professor. He was Minister of National Education from 1977 to 1980, and the President of the Cameroon Democratic Union (UDC, founded in 1991), an opposition party, at the time of his death on 7 March 2020. He had just been replaced as Mayor of Foumban by his wife , a position he has held since 1996, and from 1997 to 2007 he was a Deputy in the National Assembly. He unsuccessfully ran as a presidential candidate in the 1992, 2004, 2011 and 2018 elections.