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From Arabic غَنَاوَة (ḡanāwa). The name appears to originate from the Saharan Berber dialect word aguinaw (または agenaou) (Arabic أݣناو), meaning black (men), perhaps itself derived from the name of a city significant in the 11th century, in what is now western Mali, called Gana, in Arabic Ghana or Jenna and in Portuguese and later French Guinea or Jenné.
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The Gnawa or often referred to by the following derivatives: Gnawa or Gnaoua or Ghanawa or Ghanawi or Gnawi People originated from North & West Africa to be precise the Ancient Ghanaian Empire of Ouagadougou (Present Day Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Burkino Faso and 85 % of Mali (pre Gnawi/Mali Wars).