Guinea-Bissau folktale

In the northern regions of Guinea-Bissau, beyond the crowded fishing villages and winding riverbanks, stretched the wide wetlands and marshes of Mansoa. Tall grasses moved endlessly with the wind, rivers twisted through muddy channels, and thick mangrove forests bordered waters filled with fish, crocodiles, and migrating birds. For generations, the Papel people lived beside these wetlands, depending on the marshes