Lemurian Shunts

Narindra Lé Ranaivo was saved from life on the streets of Madagascar’s capital by the Akany Avoko refuge. Following vocational training and explorations of Malagasy traditions, she helped develop community-based projects protecting health, rights and biodiversity. Always the holistically engaged activist, she worked for many years on initiatives in the island’s remaining forests - an unsung heroine among Madagascar’s many unknowns. Mal Mitchell has pursued diverse paradigms of ’inner’ and societal change. He has counselled people with mental health problems, assortedly campaigned, and worked widely in alternative education. From 2000 to 2015 he worked with charity-NGO Azafady in support of sustainability and capacity building in Madagascar. Today Mal continues with writing and research. Published work: Besides writing articles for the New Internationalist and other development-focused journals, Mal has contributed material to the World Rainforest Movement’s ’Africa: Forests Under Threat’, published in 2002; also in ’02 Ashgrove published his multivalent narrative ’The Hog’s Wholey Wash’.