KENYAN MERMAID
In mid-April, a video claiming to show a real beached mermaid went viral on TikTok and other social media platforms, initially in Kenya, and then across the rest of Africa. The video shows what appears to be a creature with the upper body of a human child and the lower body of a fish lying on a beach, still alive and sporadically twitching, surrounded by curious onlookers. Most posts claimed it was filmed in Kwale,
