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Why Madagascar Matters
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Why Madagascar Matters
Susan Zakin
Posted: November 24, 2010
“Sorry, Suzanne, but I can’t drive you to the airport. I would be too
afraid to drive back alone at night,” my friend Marie-Chantal said.
I looked at her, doing a quick calculation in my head before realizing
Marie-Chantal* wasn’t making an excuse; she was truly scared. I had
lived in Madagascar for three months in 2001, and, like many writers and
artists before me, I left convinced that Madagascar was as close as one
could come to Paradise. This was not only because the island’s landscape
was phenomenally beautiful, filled with unique plants and animals that
made the world’s fourth-largest island a biologist’s fantasy land. It
was Madagascar’s culture that floored me.
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