· November, 2007

Stories about Madagascar from November, 2007

Madagascar: Building a wooden boat

  28 November 2007

Ruth explains how people build wooden boats in Madagascar: “Jean finished building his latest boat 2 weeks ago. It’s a traditional wooden boat built using methods passed down from older fishermen in his district…”

Madagascar: Diaspora and Development.

  9 November 2007

The Malagasy blogosphere was abuzz with discussions regarding the role of the diaspora in the development of Madagascar. This is a recurrent theme in the Malagasy blogosphere and in African development think-tank in general. Sipakv wrote (Fr) : “Deja a l’epoque, le role de la diaspora se discutait ferme, et...