Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French author, poet, and playwright (died 1937)

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Malagasy writer (1901/1903 – 1937)

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, was a Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar. Part of the first Malagasy generation raised under French colonization, Rabearivelo grew up…