National Day is an opportunity to tighten the links between compatriots. Cultural activities remain an effective means of going up on the surface the fihavanana which seems buried in the old drawers. Kabary, dances, traditional games and sports like Moraingy are highlighted. Conferences, workshops and art exhibitions malagasy Animate cultural centers. The celebration of June 26 is a friendly moment for the Malagasy people. A means of entertainment so that he forgets the impoverishment that eats away at him. The fireworks, the lights allow him to dream during the month. The month of June flows tears of nostalgia. The elders did not imagine that their country would fall so low. “” It was the heyday “, They specify.
Independence saw the birth of the First Republic on October 14, 1958. The 1960s were a period of decisive changes in Madagascar. The transformations affect many areas: political, economic, social as well as cultural. Whatever the opinions on this independence, the end of the colonial period, in other words, direct French domination, is seen during this decade as the prelude to the cultural Renaissance, an expression of a more general development of many areas in the life of a nation finally recognized sovereign on the international scene. Madagascar became a member of the United Nations (UN) on September 20, 1960. From the first years of independence, agencies of the United Nations system are among the main partners of the Big Island in its efforts to development.
Since independence, the independent economy is in fact extroverted for the benefit of France. But as the Malagasy public treasury is integrated into that of France, it results in stability which is therefore the effect of dependence. Imports are higher than exports, which is not at all a very good sign. Economists qualify this character as an extraversion. Figures in the foreign trade for the first 11 months of 1960 only mark a slight progress compared to the previous year. The import is 387,356 tonnes representing 25 billion CFA francs and export is 209,377 tonnes representing 17 billion CFA francs. Madagascar’s main economic partner is France. Cultural Francophilia is therefore coupled with economic dependence. In the aftermath of independence, the new regime has tried to establish real economic independence by launching an ambitious agricultural policy aimed at enlarging the rice area and its productivity. The combination of these efforts with dependence increases the impression of economic stability. In such a framework, France can only be a model on many plans. It is also experiencing strong economic growth. Tananarive, like a French provincial city, appears as a relay of French economic, cultural and political models, in particular for a Malagasy middle class in training. For most of the people we interviewed, the period of the First Republic is described as that of economically abundance. The period of deprivation due to war during which Madagascar was under blockade, as well as the anxieties created by the 1947 rebellion, seem far. “Rice is in abundance and the disorders are forgotten. In town, the kilo of rice costs around 30 francs and 15 francs in the bush. The powdered milk cost 600 francs the 500g box and the Milk Milot Paillot, 55 francs per liter ”.
Now is the disaster. Nothing is fine. Delics, water cut, misery are part of everyday life. It is total regression. Madagascar touches the bottom. “Where are we going”, Oustaz Boana, the Muslim religious leader of Antsiranana wonders. “” If our ancestors, who fought for our freedom, wake up, they will not be happy to see us in this situation He added.
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