The Wochua was the endonym of a pygmy

Pygmy

Pygmy is a term used for various ethnic groups worldwide whose average height is unusually short; anthropologists define pygmy as any group whose adult men grow to less than 150 cm in average height. A member of a slightly taller group is termed "pygmoid." The best known pygmies are the Aka,...

 people of the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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, south of the Welle River. They were first described in the Western world in 1880–1883 by Wilhelm Junker. They may be the same as the Kango

Kango people

The Kango , also known as the Batchua and Mbuti-Sua, are an Mbuti pygmy people of the Ituri forest. They speak a Bantu language, Bila, apparently in two dialects, northern Sua and southern Kango....

 Mbuti

Mbuti

Mbuti or Bambuti are one of several indigenous pygmy groups in the Congo region of Africa. Their languages belong to the Central Sudanic and also to Bantu languages.-Overview:...

, who are called Batchua (the root is Twa

Abatwa

Abatwa/Abathwa/Batwa is a derivative root word common to the Bantu language group of sub-Saharan Africa. It is often mistakenly glossed as 'elf' or 'spirit'...

, pronounced Cwa tʃwa in Congo); they are reported to have associated with the Maigo

Mayogo language

Mayogo is a Ubangian language spoken by the Day , Maambi, and Mangbele peoples of DRC Congo. It is not close enough to Bangba, the most closely related language, for mutual intelligibility....

 (patrons of the Kango), the Momfu

Mamvu language

Mamvu is a Central Sudanic language of northeastern Congo. It is quite similar to Lese....

(patrons of the Efé, but Wochua is a Bantu term), and the Mabode (unidentified).