The Kola people, ''Bakola'', also known as the Koya, ''Bakoya'', are

pygmies In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a po ...

of the NE

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– 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

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