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The path to the reopening of tourism is taking shape better and better for Madagascar. After almost two years of shutdown and a timid attempt to partially open up the north, we are finally seeing a semblance of opening. The entire tourism value chain on the island is working hard to be able to welcome tourists to […]

Since March 2020, the borders of Madagascar have been closed to tourism, which is almost a year and a half of closure due to the covid-19 pandemic. If the figures linked to this contagion have always been quite low, compared to other countries in the same zone, the government has always brandished the threat of new […]

Education in Madagascar is quite distinguished. If in medieval times, before the 16th century, Arab sailors had set up the first primary Islamic schools (kuttabs) on the east and south-east coast of the island, and it was much later, around 1800, that the first European formal schools came into being. Education has always been accompanied by […]

For nearly three years, videos about Madagascar have been buzzing on the internet and especially on a well-known video platform. Generally, if we talk about the big island, it is about the devastation of nature, the misery, the incessant political crises and, on rare occasions, its beauty. Yes, Madagascar […]

If in Madagascar, currently, the administrative power is held by the government, this has not always been the case as almost everywhere in the world. Indeed, this power has only recently appeared. Long before the appearance of this administrative hierarchy of Malagasy social life, the system of power was established […]

After the closure of the borders in March 2020, and the partial reopening of the island of Nosy Be to tourists from October to March 2021, Madagascar is preparing for the reopening of its borders. The timetable has not yet been set by the authorities. Nevertheless, Madagascar is gradually setting up a vaccination campaign aimed at actors […]

A game children used to play, especially when major holidays, such as Independence Day, arrived. They made their own meals outside the village or on a playground or almost wherever they wanted and used miniature copies of the utensils of grown-ups. Today, this culture has almost disappeared […]

The Sakalava are an ethnic or rather cultural group from Madagascar occupying most of the western coastal fringe of the island, from the Tulear region in the south to the Sambirano region in the north. In fact, the Sakalava do not really constitute a homogeneous people but a group of diverse ethnic groups having made […]

In all the traditions of the world, there are aspects that can clash with current modern culture. Among these rites and cultures are traditional sports. In this register, the cock fight could win the first place. Arrived on Madagascar, almost 800 years ago with migrants from Asia, […]