Case file · Cryptid
Agogwe
Small, russet-haired, upright 'little men' reported from the forests of East Africa; the best-known account is Captain William Hichens's 1937 report of seeing two in Tanganyika years earlier.
1937 CE · -6.50, 35.50 · status: account
The account
Writing in the journal Discovery, Hichens said that 'some years ago', waiting for a man-eating lion in the Ussure and Simibit forests, he saw two small brown furry creatures like little men, about 4 ft tall, walk upright across a glade; his hunter called them agogwe. In 1938 Cuthbert Burgoyne wrote describing a similar sighting on the Mozambique coast in 1927.
The sceptical view
Old, anecdotal reports published decades later; baboons or other monkeys seen briefly are likely explanations.