Edina Pengani Navaya

Edina Pengani Navaya (born Edna Pengani, 31 October 1969 – 29 October 2023) was a Malawian teacher who became the first Malawian woman to be ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament.

Life Navaya was born in Lunzu in 1969. She lived with her parents until she was six and she then went to live in Thondwe in the Zomba District with her sister, Nesta. She attended Nankumba Primary School and Stella Maris Secondary School, graduating in 1988.

Martha Mwale was the first woman to be ordained in Malawi by the Presbyterian church in 1999. Mwale was ordained by the Livingstonia Synod and later that year Navaya and two others were ordained by the Blantyre Synod. She was the first in Blantyre and the "first Minister of word and sacrament."

Death and legacy Navaya was the minister in Limbe. She was diagnosed and died in hospital in Blantyre in 2023, two days before her 54th birthday and her funeral.

She was survived by her husband and four children.