title: Awa (given name)
text: # Awa (given name)
  
  Awa (or Hawa) is an African feminine given name derived from Eve, Notable people with the name include:
  
  * Awa Marie Coll Seck (born 1951), Senegalese Executive Director of The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership
  * Awa Dioum-Ndiaye (born 1961), Senegalese retired female track and field athlete
  * Awa Gueye (born August 1978), Senegalese women's basketball player
  * Awa Santesson-Sey (born 1997), Swedish singer
  
  Hawa
  
  * Hawa Ghasia, Tanzanian politician
  * Hawa Yakubu (1948–2007), Ghanaian politician
  * 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. An example of this name use is; Te Awanui Reeder from the band Nesian Mystik. Te Awaunui, can be directly translated as 'The Big River' or 'The Main River'.
  
  