The Ninki Nanka: The Dragon of the Gambia River
About 6 min readIn the swamps of the lower Gambia River, the Mandinka, Fula and Wolof peoples tell of a dragon — thirty to fifty feet long, with a horse’s head, a giraffe’s neck and a gaze that kills. In 2006, a team of British ‘dragon hunters’ went to find it, and came home with one witness, a handful of stories, and a scale that turned out to be plastic.