The Kotoko people, also called Mser, Moria, Bara and Makari, are an ethnic group located in northern Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria.

The Kotoko population is composed of 49,071 people, the majority of which, 40,904 people live in Cameroon.

The Kotoko form part of the Chadic people.

The mother tongue is Lagwan - (kot).

Most of Kotoko are Sunni Muslims, but they also are members of other Islam sects like Ibadhi, Ahmadi, Alevi, Yazidi, Druze and Khariji.

Only slightly more than ten percent of the population is Evangelical.

They found the Kotoko kingdom in the fifteenth century.