Agogwe

SMALL HOMINID of East Africa. 
Etymology: Kuria or Chagga (Bantu) word. 
Physical description: Height, about 4 feet. Brown or russet-colored hair. 
Behavior: Upright gait. Said to barter for goods with local tribes. 
Habitat: Dense forests. Distribution: North-central Tanzania. 
Significant sighting: William Hichens briefly observed two hairy men in north-central Tanzania in the 1920s. They walked upright across a clearing in the forest. 
Possible explanation: Surviving gracile australopith, suggested by Bernard Heuvelmans. (See KAKUNDAKARI for a more detailed explanation.) The Laetoli fossil beds that contain perfectly preserved Australopithecus afarensis footprints are in north-central Tanzania, as is Olduvai Gorge where the robust fossil Paranthropus boisei was discovered by Louis Leakey in 1959. Since East Africa is the probable birthplace of early hominid species, its traditions of small hairy men are tantalizing. 
Sources: William Hichens, “African Mystery Beasts,” Discovery 18 (1937): 369–373; Bernard Heuvelmans, Les bêtes humaines d’Afrique (Paris: Plon, 1980), pp. 515–516, 530–535
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