Madagascar: Tombs and Title Deeds

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Mamy Safidison, 25 years old, and his brother Handry Njarasoa, 26, may not share the same last name--common for siblings in Madagascar--but they do share a piece of land in the village of Merimandroso in the northern highlands of this island nation.

They never doubted their ownership of this plot because their grandfather had carved the Safidison family name on a rock in the family cemetery, indicating that the tomb and one hectare of surrounding rice fields belonged to their clan.

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