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Willem Alfred Udenhout (29 September 1937 – 22 May 2023) was a Surinamese politician. He served as the military-installed Prime Minister of Suriname from February 1984 to July 1986. He had previously been a teacher and, for a time, a Black Power activist. As an academic he had a PhD in English literature from Leiden University. He later served as an ambassador to the United States. He did not favor investigating the military's murder of civilians or of Maroon people. He was also the Chairman of the Suriname Conservation Foundation.

Udenhout died on 22 May 2023, at the age of 85.

References

1. Janssen, Roger (2011). In Search of a Path: An Analysis of the Foreign Policy of Suriname from 1975 to 1991. Leiden: Brill. p. 99. ISBN 978-90-04-25367-4. JSTOR 10.1163/j.ctt1w8h0wm.
2. Betty Nelly Sedoc-Dahlberg (1 January 1990). The Dutch Caribbean: Prospects for Democracy. Psychology Press. pp. 47–. ISBN 978-2-88124-385-1.
3. Robert W. Duemling (2012). Sketches from Life. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 96–. ISBN 978-1-4422-2013-3.
4. Richard Price; Sally Price (1994). On the Mall: Presenting Maroon Tradition-bearers at the 1992 FAF. Indiana University Press. pp. 50–. ISBN 1-879407-07-8.
5. UNDP Guyana
6. Wim Udenhout, former Suriname prime minister, dies at 85

v t e Prime ministers of Suriname
Dutch rule (1667–1975)	Surinam Julius Caesar de Miranda Jacques Drielsma* Jan Buiskool Adriaan Alberga Archibald Currie  Suriname Archibald Currie Johan Ferrier Severinus Desiré Emanuels Johan Adolf Pengel Arthur Johan May* Jules Sedney Henck Arron
Suriname (since 1975)	Henck Arron Henk Chin A Sen Henry Neijhorst Errol Alibux Wim Udenhout Pretaap Radhakishun Jules Wijdenbosch
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Henck Arron Henk Chin A Sen André Haakmat [nl] Harvey Naarendorp [nl] Errol Alibux Wim Udenhout Erik Tjon Kie Sim [nl] Henk Herrenberg Henk Heidweiller [nl] Eddy Sedoc [nl] Robby Ramlakhan [nl] Subhas Mungra Faried Pierkhan [nl] Errol Snijders [nl] Marie Levens Lygia Kraag-Keteldijk Winston Lackin Niermala Badrising Yldiz Pollack-Beighle Albert Ramdin

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