Awa (or Hawa) is an African feminine given name derived from ''Eve'', Notable people with the name include:
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Awa Marie Coll Seck
Awa Marie Coll-Seck (born 1951 in Dakar, Senegal) is as Senegalese infectious diseases specialist and politician who served as Minister of Health of Senegal from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2012 to 2017. She also served as former Executive Direct ...
(born 1951), Senegalese Executive Director of The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership
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Awa Dioum-Ndiaye
Awa Dioum-Ndiaye (also spelled N'Diaye; born 21 November 1961) is a retired track and field athlete from Senegal who competed in the hurdling, high jump and the heptathlon events during her career in the 1980s. She is best known for winning th ...
(born 1961), Senegalese retired female track and field athlete
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Awa Gueye
Awa (or variants) may refer to:
People
* Awa (given name), notable people named Awa or Hawa
* Awá (Brazil), an indigenous people of Brazil
* Awa-Kwaiker, an indigenous people of Colombia and Ecuador
Languages
* Awa language (China) or Wa (Va) l ...
(born August 1978), Senegalese women's basketball player
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Awa Santesson-Sey
Awa Matilda Isakine Santesson-Sey (born 6 July 1997), known professionally as AWA, is a Swedish singer based in London. Her father is Senegalese, her mother Swedish.
At age 12, deciding she wanted to study classical music, she applied to and la ...
(born 1997), Swedish singer
Hawa
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Hawa Ghasia
Hawa Abdulrahman Ghasia (born 10 January 1966) is a Tanzanian politician belonging to the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party and a three-term Member of Parliament for Mtwara Rural constituency since 2005. She is the former Minister of State ...
, Tanzanian politician
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Hawa Yakubu
Hawa Yakubu Ogede (24 March 1948 – 20 March 2007) was a Ghanaian politician. She was a Member of Parliament in the Fourth Republic of Ghana and also served as Minister for Tourism.
Early life and education
Hawa Yakubu was born at Tarkwa in ...
(1948–2007), Ghanaian politician
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Zainab Hawa Bangura
Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura (; born 18 December 1959) is a Sierra Leonean politician and social activist who has been serving as the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) since 2018, appointed by United Nations Secretary-Ge ...
, Sierra Leona politician
Awa is also a New Zealand Māori word that means 'river' often used in given names or part of a name. It can appear in both female and male names. An example of this name use is; Te Awanui Reeder from the band
Nesian Mystik
Nesian Mystik was a New Zealand Hip hop music, hip-hop/Contemporary R&B, R&B group which formed in 1999. The cultural backgrounds of its members united a remarkable diversity of Polynesia by bringing together Cook Islands, Cook Island, Tongans, ...
. Te Awaunui, can be directly translated as 'The Big River' or 'The Main River'.
References
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['100 Māori words every New Zealander should know', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/maori-language-week/100-maori-words, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 18-Aug-2014]