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Association of African Women for Research and Development
Formation1977
HeadquartersDakar
Executive Director
Zenebework Tadesse

The Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD) / Association des Femmes Africaines pour la Recherche et le Développement (AFARD) is an African feminist organization established in Dakar in December 1977.[1] The "first intellectual feminist organization to denounce the living conditions of African women", AAWORD/AFARD "brought together female African intellectuals to promote equal rights between men and women at the continental level and contributed greatly to the advancement of the status of African women".[2]

  1. ^ "Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD)". SENEGEL. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  2. ^ Oumar Kane; Hawa Kane (2018). "The origins of the feminist movement in Senegal: A social history of the pioneering Yewwu-Yewwi". African Sociological Review. 22 (1): 18–30. JSTOR 90023844.

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