"The landing of the white man on Madagascar inflicted injury without measure. The consequences of that irruption of Europeans onto Madagascar were not psychological alone, since, as every authority has observed, there are inner relationships between consciousness and the social context."
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Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1952), p. 97.
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Madagascar (country)
is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of eastern Africa. It consists of the island of Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, and many smaller islands. In 2021 its population was estimated at 28,427,328.
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