Africa Report - Actresses of the Anti-Colonial Struggles: Zèle Rasoanoro, Madagascar's First Female Journalist [9/10]

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In the aftermath of the Second World War, when she was barely 20 years old, Zèle Rasoanoro wrote in the nationalist newspapers of the Grande Île to denounce the colonial order and imagine an independent Madagascar. Her struggle will also take the form of trade unionism and actions of solidarity. But to the idealism of the young militant with Marxist convictions will succeed, after decolonization, resignation and loneliness in the face of an unfi…