Madagascar: Conflicts Of Authority In The Great IslandThe world's fourth largest island, with a unique biological and physical endowment, Madagascar is home to an extraordinary insular civilization that has struggled for more than a century against external domination. In this sensitive introduction to the Indian Ocean's "great island," Philip Allen shows how family affinities and community loyalties at the foundation of Madagascar's culture have influenced Malagasy nationalism and forged island-wide traditions. |
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Page 81
... Ratsiraka . Evidently , the country required stability before any- thing else . Leader number four did indeed answer that demand . Ratsiraka's east coast origins and his professed Roman Catholicism reassured the côtier ma- jority ...
... Ratsiraka . Evidently , the country required stability before any- thing else . Leader number four did indeed answer that demand . Ratsiraka's east coast origins and his professed Roman Catholicism reassured the côtier ma- jority ...
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... Ratsiraka charter in 1977 after a period of interdiction , MFM remained perilously within the FNDR and the CSR but never had a minister appointed to a Ratsiraka cabinet . Finally declaring the bankruptcy of the regime , Manandafy ran ...
... Ratsiraka charter in 1977 after a period of interdiction , MFM remained perilously within the FNDR and the CSR but never had a minister appointed to a Ratsiraka cabinet . Finally declaring the bankruptcy of the regime , Manandafy ran ...
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... Ratsiraka refused at first to sanction a referendum on his own abdication . Postponed until August 19 , Madagascar's 1992 referendum finally con- firmed the new constitution and announced the third republic . A boycott called by Ratsiraka's ...
... Ratsiraka refused at first to sanction a referendum on his own abdication . Postponed until August 19 , Madagascar's 1992 referendum finally con- firmed the new constitution and announced the third republic . A boycott called by Ratsiraka's ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
Copyright | |
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