The Gola or Gula are a tribal people living in western Liberia

Liberia

Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...

. The Gola language is part of the Southern branch of the West Atlantic language family; , it is spoken by approximately 107,000 people.

Charles Taylor, who ruled Liberia between 1997 and 2003, was of mixed Gola and Americo-Liberian

Americo-Liberian

Americo-Liberians are a Liberian ethnicity of African American descent. The sister ethnic group of Americo Liberians are the Sierra Leone Creole people who are of African American, West Indian, and liberated African descent...

 ancestry.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia's president, is of mixed Gola, Kru and German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 ancestry.

The name Gola is a possible source for the name of the Gullah

Gullah

The Gullah are African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands....

, a people of African origin living on the islands and coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina, in the southeastern United States

United States

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