Infosheet: Madagascar at 60

On the occasion of the Africa 2020 year, the ASCL has created Infosheets about the countries that became independent in 1960. Of the seventeen colonies gaining independence in that year, Madagascar was the fourth one: on June 26th. Madagascar had been a French colony from the 1890s.

Read the Infosheet.

This is ASCL Infosheet 38. Read the other Infosheets.

Author(s) / editor(s)

Ton Dietz, David Ehrhardt, Fenneken Veldkamp