Mahama is an African given name and surname. People with this name include:
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Mahama Awal
Mahama Awal (; born 10 June 1991) is a professional footballer who currently plays as a winger for Hong Kong Premier League club Southern. Born in Cameroon, he plays for the Hong Kong national team.
Club career
Awal joined China League One ...
, Cameroonian footballer
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Mahama Ayariga
Mahama Ayariga (born 12 May 1974) is a lawyer and politician in Ghana. He belongs to the National Democratic Congress. He was the Minister of Information and Media Relations and the Minister of Youth and Sports under the John Dramani Mahama admi ...
, Ghanaian politician
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, Burkinabé politician
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Mahama Johnson Traoré
Mahama Johnson Traoré (1942–2010) was a Senegalese film director, writer, and co-founder of the Ouagadougou-based Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO). He is known for his many films in the Wolof language, and for h ...
, Senegalese film director and producer
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Aliu Mahama
Alhaji Aliu Mahama (3 March 1946 – 16 November 2012) was a Ghanaian engineer and politician who was Vice-President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. A member of the New Patriotic Party, he was Ghana's first Muslim Vice-Preside ...
, Ghanaian engineer and politician
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Edward Mahama
Edward Nasigrie Mahama (born 15 April 1945) is a Ghanaian medical doctor and politician. He was a perennial presidential candidate of the People's National Convention, contesting in the 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2016 General Elections.
Early li ...
, Ghanaian physician and politician
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Emmanuel Adama Mahama
Emmanuel Adama Mahama was a Ghanaian politician. He served as a Member of Parliament during the First Republic of Ghana. He is the father of John Dramani Mahama, the 4th President of the 4th Republic of Ghana.
Political career
An educator an ...
, Ghanaian politician and father of John
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Ibrahim Mahama (born 1971), Ghanaian businessman, brother of John
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John Dramani Mahama
John Dramani Mahama (; born 29 November 1958) is a Ghanaian politician who has been the 14th president of Ghana since January 2025. A member of the National Democratic Congress (Ghana), National Democratic Congress (NDC), he served as the 12th p ...
, Ghanaian politician, president of Ghana
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African given names
Surnames of African origin