I live in the small village of Ankily, which is about four kilometers west of Ihosy in southern Madagascar (see the red star on the map...click here to see a larger view of the map).
Madagascar is an island nation something like 200 miles off the east coast of Africa across from Mozambique...which means it is pretty much in the middle of nowhere.
The Malagasy people are a very diverse population. Some trace their ancestry to Indonesia, while others descend from mainland Africans.There are 18 ethnic groups living on the island, and each speaks their own dialect of the official langauge, Malagasy.
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