n. the title of a song by Maurice Ravel, based upon a poem by Evariste-Désiré de Forges, Vicomte de Parny at the time of the French Revolution.
<Ravel selected three of Parny’s 12 “Madagascar” verses as song texts. He completed one, “Aoua!”, in time for a performance in Paris during the summer. The song provoked a hostile audience demonstration. As the text indicates, the poem was a bitter warning about the destructive white invaders of Madagascar, and audience members objected to such an anti-colonial message at a time when French soldiers were fighting in Morocco. —Will Hertz, “Maurice Ravel: Chansons madécasses (Madagascan Songs).”>
Aoue.
n. a populated place in New Caledonia.
n. a well in the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibe region of Chad.
Aoueoua.
n. a hill in Mauritania.
Aoueoue.
n. an intermittent stream in Togo.
Aoui.
n. a hill in New Caledonia; a stream in New Caledonia.
Aouoye.
n. a populated place in Mali.
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