Waka

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Waka may refer to:

• Waka (poetry), a genre of Japanese poetry
• Waka (canoe), canoes of the Māori of New Zealand
  • Waka taua, a Maori war canoe
• WAKA, a CBS television station in Selma, Alabama
• World Adult Kickball Association
• Waka/Jawaka, a 1972 album by Frank Zappa
• Cyclone Waka, a tropical cyclone that formed to the northwest of Samoa on December 29, 2001
• Waka music, a musical genre from Yorubaland of Nigeria
• Huaca or wak'a, in the Quechua language, a class of sacred objects
• Waka, a character in Ōkami
• Waka, a pronunciation for angle brackets

In places:

• Waka, Texas, a community in the Texas Panhandle
• El Perú (Maya site) or Waka', Maya ruins in Guatemala
• Waka National Park, a national park in central Gabon

People with the name

• Neil Waka, New Zealand broadcaster and journalist
• Waka Flocka Flame, rap artist
• Waka Goi, Papua New Guinea politician
• Waka Inoue (born 1980), Japanese tarento and actress
• Waka Nathan, New Zealand rugby union player
• Shannon Waka Waka McClary, wrap weaving extraordinaire.

See also

• Waka huia, a carved treasure box
• Waka waka (disambiguation)
• Wakka (disambiguation)
• Waka Softball a softball organization