The Story of Madagascar: Isolation, Kingdoms, and Colonial Rule — Fexingo History
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Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island, holds a history as distinct as its famed baobabs and lemurs. Separated from Africa by the Mozambique Channel for 88 million years, its human story began only 2,000 years ago with Austronesian settlers who brought a language, culture, and crops from across the Indian Ocean. Over centuries, these Vazimba and later Merina highlanders built kingdoms that would shape the island's destiny. Lucas and Luna trace this arc from the rise of the Merina Kingdom under Andrianampoinimerina, who unified the central highlands in the late 18th century, to the reign of his son Radama I, who opened Madagascar...