Bakola’s are the pygmy people of southern Cameroon and parts of Gabon they speak Mvumbo.
Bakola people live in mud huts and leaf huts. Mud huts are made of mud and different types of branches while leaf huts are made of leaves. traditionally larger families live in mud huts.Mud huts are very nice at least for forest dwellers, Bakola Mud huts contain a fireplace, shelf for firewood and meat smoking it also has an oil lamp. Bakola people are some of the most up to date indigenous people in all of Africa.
Bakola people hunt using spears twice their size, a hunting dog called a Basenji along with hunting nets which they set up above the forest floor so the net can fall and catch various animals. The Bakola’s hunt mostly small to medium sized rodents like African brush porcupine and tree Hyrax. Unlike most cultures Bakola’s like to eat extraordinary things such as caterpillar soup.
Art like music,dance and portraits plays a vital role in Bakola culture. Bakola’s make music with instruments made from natural resources like reed trunk, which is used to make percussion tubes and drums. These instruments are usually played while people are dancing, dancing is a big thing in Bakola culture because they dance for rituals and as a form of prayer.