Brent_Marchant
An old saying maintains that Those who dont learn from history are destined to repeat it. But an arguably more accurate take on that sentiment was espoused by author Mark Twain, who asserted that History doesnt repeat itself, but it often rhymes. That thinking is perhaps one of the most precise ways of describing the history of the African island nation of Madagascar since gaining its independence from France in 1960. In the time since then, the country has undergone a series of uprisings between rival factions on the right and left, with the nations residents the Malagasy people caught in the middle, suffering the social, political and economic consequences, conditions that have continued virtually unabated to this day. In his second fea...