Yewwu-Yewwi was founded at a meeting on January 7, 1984 at the
Chamber of Commerce in
Dakar. Many members of
Yewwu-Yewwi had been members of
And-Jëf. Founders included
Marie-Angélique Savané, who played an important role in the organization's leadership. Activities of
Yewwu-Yewwi have included awareness-raising, mobilization, lobbying, publishing and fund-raising. It collaborated with other African women's associations. It awarded a public prize, the
Aline Sitoe Diatta prize, to the president of Burkina Faso,
Thomas Sankara, as a means of pressuring the Senegalese executive to prioritize attention to the status of women. Though never a popular organization with a broad base,
Yewwu-Yewwi succeeded in influencing family law code reform in the late 1980s. Its emphasis on
gender equality,
violence against women and
female circumcision helped set an agenda for later women's organizations in Senegal. ==References==