‘VARY’ SPECIAL OPINION
“Rice and I are one,” I once read about Madagascar’s first post-independence leader saying of the Great Red Island’s staple, which is also a connection to south-east Asian lands far away from nearby mainland Africa. Some journey they must have undertaken, across the Indian Ocean centuries ago!
They brought with them, and modified, a ritual that involves removing corpses from family tombs, changing their dressings and, among other things, showing their ancestors
