Episode 128: What’s the Deal with Ranavalona and the Kingdom of Madagascar?

Written By Emma Southon

https://www.africanbiographies.com/ranavalona

  • Paula Akpan. 2025. When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens. 

  • History of Africa 4:21: How Mad was the Mad Queen of Madagascar? https://historyofafricapodcast.blogspot.com/2023/09/s4e21-how-mad-was-mad-queen-of.html 

  • Stephen Ellis. 2002. Witch-Hunting in Central Madagascar 1828-1861. Past & Present. 2002;175(1):90-123.

  • Gwyn Campbell. 2005. An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750–1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire.

  • Stephen Ellis and Solofo Randrianja. 2009. Madagascar: A Short History. 

  • Rachel A. Rakotonirina.  2000. Re-Reading Missionary Publications: The case of European and Malagasy Martyrologies, 1837-1937. Studies in Church History Subsidia , Volume 13: Missions and Missionaries , pp. 157 - 169

  • Patreonhyiamu: Gwyn Campbell's Numerical Troubles https://www.patreon.com/c/historyofafrica/posts 

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