Barely reported in the western mainstream press has been a most dramatic story in the huge Indian Ocean island nation as hundreds of thousands of ordinary Malagasy people have taken to the street in the capital Antananarivo to protest presidential election results in January 2002. We update listeners on the latest developments, and talk by phone with Malagasy roots pioneer and Deputy of Parliament, Dama Mahaleo. And! The encore the tsapika-salegy Malagasy roots pop slam from APWW's extraordinary adventure in Madagascar in April 2001.