2024-07-22 08:58:18
How can we restore the unique history of Madagascar’s population? From Africa through the Mozambique Channel but also from Asia as evidenced by the Malagasy language… How do archaeology, genetics and linguistics reveal another story of Madagascar, at the crossroads?
Welcome to the red planet of Madagascar where we are happy to take you on a visit with Thibault Baduel and Caroline Fillette, for the 3rd part of our travel series that will take us to the astronomical festival of Mahajanga under the stars to observe the way Milky with the children of the Ecole du Monde de Besely in the middle of the forest…
We will have to take the necessary chaotic road, and even the track, to pass from the high mountain of Tana the capital to the hot area that is in the Mozambique channel region, passing through the rice fields and forests of great beauty: the diversity of landscapes and ecosystems, animals and flowers, but also people and cultural diversity that will take your breath away. Faced with the bright smiles of all those we meet along the way, we want to shed some light on these men, women and children of Madagascar by focusing on a unique and little-known story of the human population of this island continent, part of Africa in the Indian Ocean. A recent genetic study has shown the pre-eminence of Bantu genes in the Malagasy population while linguistic studies have shown the Asian origin of the Malagasy language. Madagascar: at the crossroads of Africa and Asia.
We will return to the unique story of the population of Madagascar with the scientist Tanambalo Rasolondrainy, historians of the first human settlements of Madagascar, associate researcher at the museum of art and science of the University of Antananarivo and Diego Suarez University
With an update from an animal population geneticist Jordi Salmona of IRD co-author of a research on the origin of wild boar These relatives of the wild boar and the warthog came to burden the people on the continent of the island.
On the way we will stop at thoseBesely International School meeting middle school, high school and university students, in the homes of Malagasy and French astronomers who have built a professional astronomical observatory in this forest village.
And our monthly ephemeris” African sky “, presented by Andoniaina Rajaonarivelo of Haikintana astronomical group of Madagascar will reveal the name of the new winner (or winners) of the astronomical telescope awarded by SSVI and RFI in partnership with the Online Magazine Astronomy Africa
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