Association of African Women for Research and Development information
Women's organization
Association of African Women for Research and Development
Formation
1977
Headquarters
Dakar
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]
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^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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