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[Facts] African name
On Cold Case Files now they're featuring the case of a murdered young woman named Mwivano, pronounced more-or-less mwee-VAHN-o. She was from Tanzania.What could her name mean?(Jfyi, her killer was her first cousin Peter. Very sad. :-()

Miranda
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Mwiva is the "closest" word in Swahili I could find -- a kind of fish : http://research.yale.edu/cgi-bin/swahili/main.cgi?right_frame_src=http%3A//research.yale.edu/cgi-bin/swahili/lookup.cgi%3FWord%3Dmwiva%26EngP%3D0%26SUBMIT2%3DLook+Up
I seriously doubt there is any relation, however.
How about calling the Embassy of Tanzania in Washington DC ? The number is (202) 9396125
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