Kola people

For the ethnic group in Cambodia, see Kula people (Asia).

For other peoples with a similar name, see Koya#Peoples and languages.

The Kola people, Bakola, also known as the Koya, Bakoya, are pygmies of the NE Gabon–Congo border area. They speak the Bantu Ngom language.

They are distinct from the Gyele people of coastal Cameroon, a subgroup of which also goes by the name Bakola / Bakoya.

References

• Beatriz SOENGAS, "Preliminary Ethnographic Research on the Bakoya in Gabon".[1] African Study Monographs, 30(4): 187–208, December 2009