{"id":3919,"date":"2016-01-30T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madamagazine.com\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2020-06-06T18:49:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T16:49:17","slug":"chinesischer-friedhof-von-manakara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madamagazine.com\/en\/chinesischer-friedhof-von-manakara\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese cemetery of Manakara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some curiosities of Madagascar stay well hidden and are only found by accident. One of them is in the Vatovavy-Fitovinany region in southeast Madagascar. In a small fishing village called Ampasimandrorona, a few kilometres from the centre, there is a small, old cemetery directly on the Indian Ocean. Between poor huts and tropical remains of rainforest, it seems a bit bizarre and out of place, especially since not a single Madagascan is buried in the cemetery. Instead, it is the Chinese and Senegalese who have found their last resting place here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presumably they are workers who were brought to Madagascar at the beginning of the 20th century as pens on the orders of the Frenchman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madamagazine.com\/die-franco-hova-kriege-der-beginn-der-kolonialherrschaft\/\">Joseph Gallieni<\/a> for the construction of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madamagazine.com\/canal-des-pangalanes\/\">Canal des Pangalanes<\/a>. Chinese workers were known at the time as particularly robust and hardworking, which was a welcome skill in the eight-year construction project. After all, the small cemetery today offers a magnificent view of the sea &#8211; even if its inhabitants can no longer enjoy it. But still today the Chinese influence of that time is noticeable in Madagascar &#8211; many descendants of the Chinese of that time live today as traders of small shops.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some curiosities of Madagascar stay well hidden and are only found by accident. One of them is in the Vatovavy-Fitovinany region in southeast Madagascar. In a small fishing village called Ampasimandrorona, a few kilometres from the centre, there is a small, old cemetery directly on the Indian Ocean. 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