The Agogwe & The Sehite of Africa

Updated 12/03

This information was provided to me by Brad, an anthropology student

The agogwe is a little, woolly haired biped reported from the forests of E.
Africa. It is said to have yellow-reddish skin under its rust colored coat.

There is also reports of the "sehite" from the Ivory Coast, where in
the 1940's there was a lot of reports, even though no pygmies or anything
of the sort live there. The descriptions of the sehite match EXACTLY the
descriptions of the Agogwe. 

Here are a few Agogwe sightings:

One came around 1900 when a man by the name of Captain William Hitchens was
sent on an official Lion hunt in East Africa. While waiting for the man-eating Lion he saw:

"two small, brown, furry creatures come from the dense forest on one side
of the glade and disappear into the thickets on the other. They were like little men, about four feet high, walking upright, but clad in russet hair."

The native hunter said they were the agogwe. Hichens tried to find them, but to no success in the impenetrable forest. Hichens wrote this in 1937.  Because he obviously was criticized, a man by the name of Cuthbert Burgoyne wrote a letter to the London magazine <i>Discovery</i> in 1938 saying that he and his wife had seen something similar while coasting Portuguese Africa in a Japanese cargo boat in 1927. They were close enough to the shore where they could view the beach using a 

"glass of twelve magnifications" 

they watched a troupe of Baboons feeding and

"As we watched, two little brown men walked together out of the bush and
down amongst the baboons. They were certainly not any known monkey and yet they must have been akin or they would have disturbed the baboons.  They were too far away to be seen in great detail, but these small human-like animals were probably between four and five feet tall, quite upright and graceful in figure. At the time I was thrilled as they were quite evidently no beast of which I had heard or read. Later a friend and big game hunter told me he was in the Portuguese East Africa with his wife and three hunters, and saw a mother, father and child, apparently of the same species, walk across the further side of the bush clearing. The natives loudly forbade him to shoot"

I find these sightings very intriguing. For one, the Agogwe associated with Baboons. No smart monkey would do that and Baboons would run from man. This alone tells me the Agogwe has to be an unidentified species. 

This is kind of sad though, because Agogwe sightings are not common and most of the reported sightings came from 70 or more years ago. This tells me that the
Agogwe could have been fading back then and may be gone now, because of the
lack of recent sightings. But in the dense impenetrable jungles of Africa,
you never know..

All the evidence considered, I would say the Agogwe is a surviving species
of australopithecine, which is a bipedal primate known to science in the
fossil record from around 3-5 million years ago. I think it is an
australopithecine because no Monkey species would go near Baboons or they
would get eaten and it cant be an unknown Pygmy group because humans and
Baboons just don't mix together. Plus the description fits what the
australopithecine would have looked like perfectly.

-Brad