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Sofia Kawawa (12 August 1936 – 1998) Born Sofia Yasin Mkwela. This brave woman of the TANU Party and later CCM and the founder of the Tanzania Women's Union (UWT) was born in Masonya village in Tunduru District in Ruvuma. She studied at Masonya Primary and later completed her primary education in Tabora.

Biography
She got married in 1951 with a man who becomes to be the First Prime Minister of Tanganyika/Tanzania Rashid Kawawa. She was among the first woman to join the TANU Party and to fight for the independence of Tanganyika. She is the founder of the Tanzania Women's Union (UWT) work in collaboration with Bibi Titi Mohamed. These are the first activists to defend the rights of women in the country and they planted the seeds even before independence.

Philosophical and/or political views
Mama Kawawa as other activists had a slogan saying “It must be from the grassroots stems. She campaigned/fight for women's to be leaders and for her efforts she got Anna Abdallah and Gertrude Mongella to be MP's, and this is the fruits of her work of planting 50/50 seeds that today activists and politicians want women and men's participation to be 50/50.

Published works
Militants, Mothers, and the National Family. See [].

References/Notes and references
1. https://www.ippmedia.com/sw/safu/sofia-kawawa

2. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/african-socialism-in-postcolonial-tanzania/militants-mothers-and-the-national-family/D56F08B226DEB82FAD99C17CBB2531C6