Yewwu-Yewwi

Yewwu-Yewwi is a Senegalese feminist organization, "the first feminist movement in Senegal".[1] Liberal feminist in orientation, the group is led by educated Muslim Senegalese women. The name Yewwu-Yewwi is taken from a Wolof phrase meaning "raise consciousness for liberation".[2]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Suad Joseph; Afsāna Naǧmābādī, eds. (2003). "Sub-Saharan Africa". Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Family, Law and Politics. BRILL. pp. 594–5. ISBN 90-04-12818-2.

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