Beatrice Atallah is the head of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENIT), the organization responsible for ensuring electoral ...

You can feel it in the air... you can hear it in the streets...you can see it on the posters! It looks, feels and tastes like it is REAL...

Cats ('saka' in Malgache) are not very common in Madagascar. Some say people eat them. Not sure. Our first cat Titi did actually ...

Yooo all! I am back on the blog! After three lovely long holiday months, we came back in time for Soleine's fresh start of Grade 4 of...

Yes! I am out of here! Honestly, I can not wait to leave Tana. I know, that does not sounds nice but it's true. It is just simply too...

Hello my dear readers. It has been a while. Not that I had nothing to share. On the contrary. This country is full of stuff to blog about,...

Big brother I t  maybe six times smaller than its big brother in Arizona, but Isalo park in Madagascar is at least as spectacular as ...

Picture this. Sitting in a mini bus that drives calmly though rural Southern Madagascar, listening to Rihana's Diamonds in the sky. It ...

One of the most frequently used expression in daily life in Malagasy is: Inona Vao Vao (pronounce: Enoona Vavao?) Literally this mean: Ho...

Just a few days ago, Cyclone Haruna swept by on the West coast of Madagascar. This is very unusual, most cyclones, hurricanes, and tropical...

Had to try it out.... After my adventure at the silk worm farm, I visited the Cyclo Pousse Project in Anstirabe, another UNDP  project....

Madagascar is a country that will never cease to amaze me. I believe that after two and half years, I may have discovered 2% of all the sec...

A little while ago I wrote about the bush fires that 'destroyed' some of the Allee the Baobab, one of Madagascar's fantastic na...

As a language lover, I am always delighted to find foreign words in a language. Of course there are quite a few French words in the Malaga...

Yonder See the Steamboat Coming (free translation :-). Every year millions of Dutch children are singing this traditional Dutch Saint Nic...