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Awa

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Awa (or variants) may refer to:

People

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  • 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
  • Wa people, a Southeast Asian ethnicity in Myanmar, China, and Thailand, mostly on the Awa mountain range

Languages

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Music

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  • Awa (musician) or Leena Peisa (born 1979), Finish musician
  • AWA (singer) or Awa Santesson-Sey (born 1997), Swedish singer
  • A-WA, Israeli hip-hop and world music band

Places

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Other uses

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  • Awa Society, a mask and initiatory society of the Dogon people of Mali
  • Awa (magazine), a Senegalese women's magazine from 1964 to 1973
  • Milkfish or awa, a tropical marine fish (Chanos chanos)
  • Kava or ʻawa, a plant (Piper methysticum) consumed for its sedating effects throughout Polynesia

See also

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