By the time he got to college in the capital, Dakar, in 1982, the university students were pushing to rename many institutions after prominent Senegalese who had fought for independence in 1960. "We were the ones who were always trying something emancipatory," Mr. Diaby said of himself and his university friends in an interview after the May Day rally.
Tangu kuanzishwa kwa Mfuko huo, juhudi za kutangaza hudumazake kwa wadau zimekuwa zikiendelea mfululizokwa kutoa elimu kupitia semina, maonyeshona makongamano lakini pia kupitia vyombo vyahabari na kwa siku ya Mei Day imekuwa ni fursa kubwa ya WCF kuungana na wadau wake wakubwa.