How strange that Afircans did not first set foot on Madagascar, a country just off the coast of Africa and that the South Asians were the first to set foot on that island.  How very, very strange for a people who were such successful sailors.   The same goes for the Madeiran, Canarian, Cabo Verdean and Fernando Poan, archipelagos... all of them right off the coast of western Africa and all of them but Fernando Po inhabitated until the Portuguese and Spanish arrived there respectively...    For the Africans being a great seafaring and shipbuilding people, they sure were afraid of the water :rolleyes: :rofl     Heres what wikipedia says about early Madagascans,though with a laughable cultural bias (Austronesian science!!,to excuse explaining African sailing and shipbuilding):   Heres the 8000 year old Nigerian canoe from the other side of Africa. I've spent the last 30 mins. tyring to upload it: Again, The remnants of Asian and Arab traders/explorers and Asian and Arab Technology NOT African ;)