Question

This island was legendarily settled by a race of dwarfs who exhumed dead bodies and wrapped them in fresh (20[1])cloth as part (20[1])of the famadihana ceremony. (20[5])According to a 1726 (20[1])book by Charles Johnson, former slaves joined the pirate James Mission on this island to found the utopian community of (20[1])Libertalia. (20[3])This island’s (20[1])epic poem Ibonia was transmitted via a language spoken by the Sakalava (20[1])people that (20[1])is the (20[1])westernmost of the (*) Austronesian (0[2])language (10[1])family. (10[1])Exclusive mining (10[1])rights (10[1])on this island were granted to Joseph-François Lambert (“zhoh-SEFF fran-SWAH lahm-BERR”) by Radama II, the son of Queen Ranavalona. (10[2])In the 1870s, France conquered this island’s Merina Kingdom (10[1])and its Malagasy (10[1])people. (10[3])For (10[1])10 points, (10[2])name this large island (10[1])country off the coast of East Africa. (10[3])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Madagascar [or Madagasikara] (The first clue refers to the Vazimba.)
<Hari Parameswaran, History - World - African&gt; ~25817~ &lt;Editor: Jordan Brownstein>
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