Awa (or Hawa) is an African feminine given name derived from ''Eve''
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Awa Marie Coll Seck
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Awa Dioum-Ndiaye (born 1961), Senegalese retired female track and field athlete
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Awa Gueye (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 mononymously as Awa (stylised 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 a ...
(born 1997), Swedish singer
Hawa
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Hawa Ghasia, 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 i ...
(1948–2007), Ghanaian politician
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Zainab Hawa Bangura, 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. Te Awanui can be directly translated as 'The Big River' or 'The Main River'.
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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]