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De la Tradition orale à l’histoire écrite : l’œuvre de Raombana (1809-1855)
Omaly sy Anio (Hier et Aujourd’hui) : revue d’études historiques, volume 12, juillet - décembre 1980, pp. 77-104Auteur : Ayache S.
Mots clés : MALGACHES/MERINA/HISTOIRE/19E SIECLE/RAOMBANA/1809-1855/MANUSCRITS
[ EN ] Simon Ayache introduces a literate, almost modern historian when Imerina was barely on the threshold of literacy in the first half of the Nineteenth century. Sent to study in England as a boy of eleven, Raombana returned to Antananarivo eight years later to become ultimately secretary to Queen Ranavalona I. Imerina’s first archivist, and somewhat clandestine author of the first “rationalistic and critical construct of national past, written in English but entirely Malagasy otherwise”, altogether some 8.000 manuscript pages. Friend of Europe and precursor of nationalism, high Merina noble to whom no door was closed, Raombana broke entirely with traditional methods of dealing with history and applied the critical method to his study of all the text rigorously collected as well. It is the author’s belief that Raombana might just be a culture hero for all the Malagasy of today. He was the first modern intellectual, the earliest advocate of the need to incorporate all of the Malagasy into the Merina state without resort to arms, and certainly a Malagasy who could work out within himself and his culture a synthesis of the two worlds, “modern” and “traditional”.
[ MLA ] Ny lahatsoratr’Andriamatoa S. Ayache dia mikasika an-dRaombana, mpanoratra tantara teto Imerina tamin’ny tapany voalohan’ny taonjato faha-XIX.
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Nalefa nianatra tany Angletera izy raha vao 11 taona monja, ary tafaverina teto Antananarivo 8 taona tato aoriana ka lasa mpitan-tsoratry ny mpanjaka. Niafinafina ihany izy nanoratra ny tanataram-pirenena ; tamin’ny teny anglisy no nanaovany an’izany kanefa, hoy S. Ayache, ny teny nampiasainy ihany no vahiny fa ny sisa dia tena malagasy, 8.000 pejy eo ho eo no fitambaran’ny voasoratr’i Raombana (sora-tanana). Sakaizan’ny Tandrefana Raombana kanefa koa anisan’ny voalohany nanandratra ny fitiavan-tanindrazana. Teo amin’ny fanoratana ny tantara dia nanavanana azy ary nampihariny ireo fomba azo heverina ho ara-tsiansa : fanangonana, fanadihadihana ary fitsikerana ny rakitry ny ela. Ho an’ny mpanoratra ity lahatsoratra ity, dia Raombana no avaram-pianarana malagasy voalohany no sady voalohany koa nampita ny tsangan-kevitra fa ny fampiraisana ny Malagasy rehetra teo ambany fitarihan’ny Fanjakana merina dia tsy tokony ho nampiasan-kery amam-basy. Raha fintinina dia miezaka mandrindra ny “nentim-paharazana” sy ny zava-baovao natao hoe “fandrosoana” ny sangan’asan-dRaombana.