Yaba or YABA may refer to:

People

Yaba is a female given name associated with the

Akan people The Akan () people are a kwa languages, Kwa group living primarily in present-day Ghana and in parts of Ivory Coast and Togo in West Africa. The Akan speak languages within the Central Tano languages, Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano la ...

of West Africa, usually denoting a girl born on a Thursday. *

Yaba Angelosi Angelo Maku better known by his stage name Yaba Angelosi is a South Sudanese American singer, songwriter, sound producer, film director, and entertainer. Biography He is founder of Assida Records and Assida Films. He is popular in Africa a ...

, South Sudanese American singer, songwriter, sound producer, film director, and entertainer *

Yaba Badoe Yaba Badoe (born 1954) is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author. Career Yaba Badoe was born in 1954 in Tamale, northern Ghana. She left Ghana to be educated in Britain at a very young age.Beti Ellerson"A Conversatio ...

(born 1954), Ghanaian-British filmmaker, journalist and author *

Yaba Blay Yaba Blay is a Ghanaian-American professor, scholar-activist, public speaker, cultural worker, and consultant. She is originally from Ghana, West Africa, and was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Her scholarship, work, and practice ...

(born 1974), Ghanaian-American professor, producer and publisher

Places

*, the capital of

Yaba Department Yaba is a department or commune of Nayala Province in western Burkina Faso. Its capital is the town of Yaba. According to the 2019 census the department has a total population of 41,369. Towns and villages * (6 591 inhabitants) (capital) * Ba ...

Yaba, Lagos Yaba is a suburb located on Lagos Mainland, Lagos in Lagos State, Nigeria. With its educational institutions and technological start-ups, Yaba is considered the technological hub of Lagos. Inaugurated in 2021, the ultra-modern Mobolaji Johnson C ...

, a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria * Yaba, Indonesia, a town in North Maluku, Indonesia

Other uses

* Yaba or

Ya ba ''Ya ba'' (, , literally 'crazy pill') is a drug containing a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine. It was formerly known as ''yama'' (; literally 'horse drug'). Although it is illegal, it has considerable use in Southeast Asia. It is also k ...

, tablets of methamphetamine and caffeine popular in south-east Asia *

Yaba monkey tumor virus Yaba monkey tumor virus is a type of poxvirus. The first case of the virus was obtained from a colony of rhesus monkeys in Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria. The virus caused the formation of tumors on the bodies of the monkeys. From these tumors the virus wa ...

Acronyms

* Young American Bowling Alliance, one of the organisations that merged to form the

United States Bowling Congress The United States Bowling Congress (USBC) is a sports membership organization dedicated to ten-pin bowling in the United States of America, United States. It was formed in 2005 by a merger of the American Bowling Congress—the original codifier ...

in 2005 * Albany Airport (Western Australia) in Albany, Western Australia * Yet Another Bloody Acronym, see {{disambig, geo, given name