Popobawa

Popobawa, also Popo Bawa, is the name of an Unidentified mysterious animal, or  shetani,PopoBawa believed by residents to have first appeared on the Tanzanian island of Pemba. In 1995 Popobawa was the focus of a major outbreak of mass hysteria or panic which spread from Pemba to Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar archipelago, and across to Dar es Salaam and other urban centres on the East African coast.