The Gray Areas of Regional Capitalism

For a long time, it was believed that crime in Madagascar was embodied by the dahalo of the South – those cattle thieves driven by poverty to face hunger and dust. The recent arrest in Mauritius of businessman Mamy Ravatomanga, suspected of laundering Rs 7.3 billion, disrupts this simplistic narrative. What if crime now also mirrored the traits of the economic elite?

This case raises questions not about an individual, but about a system: that of ...