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Distribution of Malagasy ethnic groups. Africa portal; Madagascar portal; The Malagasy (French: Malgache or Malagasy: Gasy [1]) are a group of Austronesian-speaking ethnic groups indigenous to the island country of Madagascar, formed through generations of interaction between Austronesians originally from southern Borneo and Bantus from Southeast Africa.
The World Bank estimates that 17 million people in Madagascar's rural areas live more than two kilometres away from an all-season road. [215] In Madagascar, 11% of the rural population has access to power. [210] [216] Radio broadcasts remain the principal means by which the Malagasy population access international, national, and local news.
The Malagasy people of Madagascar see time in a cyclical manner. They imagine the future as flowing into the back of their heads, or passing them from behind, then becoming the past as it stretches out in front of them. The past is in front of their eyes because it is visible, known and influential.
The Merina people's culture likely mixed and merged with the Madagascar natives named Vazimba about whom little is known. [13] According to the island's oral traditions, the "most Austronesian looking" Merina people reached the interior of the island in the 15th century and established their society there because of wars and migrant pressure at ...
The name Tandroy means "people of the thorns" in reference to the spiny thickets of endemic plants that characterize the southwestern region of Madagascar. [1] Their traditional homeland forms the modern Androy Region , which is roughly located between Amboasary and Beloha and between the ocean and Bekily ; the population is most concentrated ...
Today, the people of Madagascar can be considered as the product of mixing between the first occupants, the vahoaka ntaolo Austronesians (Vazimba and Vezo) and those arrived later (Hova neo-Austronesians, Persians, Arabs, Africans and Europeans). Genotypically, the original Austronesian heritage is more or less evenly distributed throughout the ...
The Tsimihety have been an active part of Madagascar politics ever since. Philibert Tsiranana , a Tsimihety from near Mandritsara , was the first president of the Malagasy Republic , when it became a semi-autonomous region within the French Union in 1959, and remained president for 10 years after it gained independence from France in 1960.
Classification: People: By nationality: Malagasy also: Countries : Madagascar : People This category is for Malagasy peoples , the people of Madagascar island, located off the coast of East Africa , in the Western Indian Ocean .