“” The repatriation of Kabeso de Toera constitutes an important social, political and symbolic issue. He questions the evolution of the Maroseranana dynasty in the face of colonial violence, but also on the question of Malagasy identity in this postcolonial period ”, said the historian Dr Alexandre Lahiniriko.
So, as a tribute to this great character and to evoke the episodes of contemporary history of the Grande-Ile, the day for the “colonial order and restart: politics and the sacred in Menabe (from the end of the 19th century to the present day)” will be held on Tuesday April 22 at 9 am at the Amphithe 24 of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of the University of Ambohitsa.
On the program
The screening of the film “Fitampoha” (1978) directed by Jacques Lombard, a videoconferencing with the director and filmmaker Claude Randriamihaingo, will be followed at 11 a.m., from a conference delivered by four stakeholders. Dr. Helihanenta Rajaonarison (Commission and return), Professor Jeannot Rasoloarison who will develop his theme “The tribal bureaucracy: the challenges of the appointment of civil servants on a political basis during colonization”, Dr. Alexandre Lahiniriko will intervene about the subject Neonationalism through the repatriation of human remains And Dr. Lolona Razafindralambo, on the other hand, will evoke the theme ” ritual, relics and legitimities ”.
An event that turns out to be important
On the one hand, the initiators dig up the past because although colonization is a recent history, many of the compatriots do not retain the adventures that have crossed their ancestors. “...The ambky massacre has long been forgotten and it took the Kamamy request to the French authorities for the return of Kabeso de Toera so that the memory of these resistance fighters in the colonial conquest is known to the MalagasyAdded Dr Lahiniriko. From another angle, these scholars, through historical stories, decode the present. Indeed, the era in which we live is only a continuity of what the ancestors lived 129 years ago. In addition to part, this study day also aims to erect Malagasy culture, that of the Menabe region in particular since tradition takes a special place. THE Fitampohathis institutionalized cult ceremony long before colonization remains the base on which the Sakalava identity rests although it has had a mutation over the years. Thus, the persistence of the mores demonstrates the attachment that a people carries to their land. How many populations have left their ancestral values behind for the benefit of the so-called “modernity”? Le Menabe, faced with the vagaries of planetization, was able to stand straight with a steel spine.
These quality historians are hardly prisoners of the past, and in no intention of fueling a feeling of hostility towards the French, far from it! Shapes the minds of their fellow citizens is part of their mission. In addition, the choice of date is not the result of chance. The event will take place the day before the arrival of the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron. It’s very significant!
ISS Herifiny
