Kola people

{{short description|Pygmy ethnic group of the Gabon–Congo border area}}

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{{For|other peoples with a similar name|Koya people (disambiguation){{!}}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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}