A homonym with at least three senses: (1) pawpaw/papaya (Robinson: 'gwanda, pawpaw; see gonda'); (2) 'it is better' (= gara); and (3) in textile history, a white striped cloth: Perani & Wolff describe rigar giwa, 'gown of the elephant', as a white striped gown of gwanda, a variant of saki caliphate cloth. Robinson also records Gwanja, Gwonda as the name of a district in the hinterland of the Gold Coast (Gonja).
A rigar giwa is tailored from gwanda cloth.