Will someone give ge a recent history of Madagascar?

I am doing a project on it and I can't find anything but presidency. Can someone help?

That's because the presidents come and go and there is a lot of upheaval. Try this link. http://www.iexplore.com/dmap/Madagascar/...
Another thing which causes upheaval is the prevalence of cyclones. Another link: http://article.wn.com/view/2007/04/13/Re...
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0516-un.ht...

well, the talking animals in the movie were real cute, but that is all I really know. LOL!!!

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/Plai...

You will find interesting information on the history of Madagascar on the following sites:
http://history1900s.about.com/library/wo...

http://history1900s.about.com/gi/dynamic...

http://history1900s.about.com/gi/dynamic...

Despite its location close to the African continent, the first human settlers of Madagascar appear to have come from Asia, rather than Africa, between 100 and 500 AD. The culture shows the influence of both Africa and Asia. The settlement represented the western-most branch of the great Austronesian expansion. Some of the strongest evidence indicating that the settlers of Madagascar came from this region is linguistic: the Malagasy language belongs to the group of Malayo-Polynesian languages, the rest of which are spoken in the island nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean.

The written history of Madagascar begins in the 7th century, when Arabs established trading posts along the northwest coast and first transcribed the Malagasy into the Arabic-based alphabet Sorabe. European contact began in the 1500s, when Portuguese sea captain Diogo Dias sighted the island after his ship separated from a fleet going to India.

In 1665, Fran莽ois Caron, the Director General of the newly formed French East India Company, sailed to Madagascar. The Company failed to found a colony on Madagascar but established ports on the nearby islands of Bourbon and 脦le-de-France (today's R茅union and Mauritius). In the late 17th century, the French established trading posts along the east coast.

From about 1774 to 1824, it was a favourite haunt for pirates, including Americans, one of whom brought Malagasy rice to North Carolina. Many European sailors would be shipwrecked on the coasts of the island. The most interesting of these is Robert Drury whose journal is one of the only written depictions of life in southern Madagascar during the 18th century.


I hope it helped :D