S3 E12: The Beauty (Madagascar) and the Beast (Poverty)!

In terms of national independence, the year 1960 is a downright champion. And June 26, 1960, was the turn of another country, an island actually. First called the Saint Lawrence Island by the Portuguese in 1500, it owes its current name to an error of former geographers, including Oronce Finé, who confused it with an imaginary island described by Marco Polo. With a surface of ​​almost 600,000 square meter, it is one of the largest islands in the world, located in eastern Africa and separated from the mainland by the Mozambique Canal

Also nicknamed the big island, the continent island, the island of biodiversity, paradise island or the red island because of its sand which is  colored by iron and aluminum, the Sankofa is taking you to the heart of the history of Madagascar's fights for freedom.