Waka

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 music, a musical genre from Yorubaland of Nigeria

Places

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

Organizations or companies

• World Adult Kickball Association
• WAKA, a CBS television station in Selma, Alabama

People

• Waka Goi, a Papua New Guinea politician
• Waka Inoue (b.1980), a Japanese idol, tarento and actress
• Neil Waka, a New Zealand broadcaster and journalist
• Waka Flocka Flame, a rap artist

Other

• Huaca or wak'a, in the Quechua language, a class of sacred objects
• Waka/Jawaka, a 1972 album by Frank Zappa
• Cyclone Waka, a severe tropical cyclone which formed to the northwest of Samoa on December 29, 2001
• A fictional character in the video game Ōkami
• Waka is a proposed pronunciation for angle brackets

See also

• Waka waka (disambiguation)
• Waka huia - carved treasure box