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Hawa is a Former West African Model from a Beautiful Country known as the Republic of Guinea.
Through NIMBA Entertainment Inc, Hawa Produces the Miss Guinee USA scholarship pageant in order to achieve several goals: raise awareness for improving healthcare, raise funds in support of educational scholarships and cultural and promotional events in Guinea and the U.S. Hawa is also working on promoting and branding a fashion and textile industry in Guinea.
She started Modeling at the age of 16 in Guinea where she graced the runway for the country’s Top house of fashion “Terranga Couture” with designer Talibe Bah. At age 21, she moved to Ghana where she went to school studying English, then Business Management at the Graduate school of Management in Accra. While a student in Ghana, Hawa also worked as a model for late designer Ricci Ossey and participated in Fashion shows at the National Theater in Accra in front of personalities like Mrs. Rawling, former first Lady of Ghana.
Hawa Moved to the United States in 1998 and was soon encouraged by a friend to pursue modeling. She participated in the MAAI (Modeling Association of America International) convention at the Waldorf Astoria in NY in 1999 where she competed in five disciplines (Runway, photography, acting, make-up artistry, and team choreography) she won four out of five competitions. Hawa then had several contract offers to Japan, France and New York. She decided to make New York her home and signed with Ophelia devore’s own Agency “Grace Del Marco”, one of the oldest black model managed agency in the U.S under the leadership of Dee Simmon Edelstein. Right after moving to New York, Hawa started working for Magazines such as Essence Magazine, Upscale, Vibe, NV just to name a few. She also worked as a print and commercial model doing campaigns for companies like Dudley Cosmetics, Target and the MacNeil Healthcare (makers of Motrin). Was a model on TV programmings like “The View” on ABC “The Today Show” fashion segment with Lloyd Boston on NBC, model on Maxwell video “let’s not play the game” where she worked along side actors Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau.
Since stepping down from modeling to start her own family ( mother of two beautiful kids) Hawa has utilised her notoriety as a former model to bring attention to her place of birth and women issues. In order to effectively provide services for Guinean girls and women, she founded NIMBA Entertainment Inc, a fully loaded event production company with a philanthropic division to help bring positive attention to her country of birth-Rep. of Guinea, as well as to help girls and young women pursue their educational dreams and lay a strong foundation for future leadership in Guinea.