Gola people

The Gola or Gula are an indigenous people that live in western Liberia.

The Gola language belongs to the southern branch of the West Atlantic language family. In 1991, it was spoken by about 107,000 people.

The name Gola is the source for the term Gullah. He called a creole language that is spoken among African-Americans on the islands and coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina in the southeastern United States.

Charles Taylor, Liberia reigned between 1997 and 2003, was Gola and amerikoliberianischer descent.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the current Liberian President has ancestors from the people of Gola, which the Kru and from Germany.

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