Ramahazomanana Arsène´s hundredth birthday, Malagasy journalist and nationalist

A ceremony in celebration of his hundredth birthday was organized by his daughter, Baovola Ramahazomanana, and by some of her father´s former collaborators gathered within the Club of elder journalists, in the Cmdelac Analakely, in the capital city center. 
Those who knew and worked beside Arsène Ramahazomanana got the opportunity to tell stories about him. 
During the colonial repression´s hardest days, in 1948, Arsène Ramahazomanana published the “Fahaleovantena” newspaper or “The independence”. “It is a bravery act”  assessed Remi Rahajarizafy, historian. Ramahazomanana´s patriotism should be a model for the reporters´ new generation according to his former collaborators. 
Arsène Ramahazomanana died on August 6th, 1960, shortly after Madagascar´s independance day. “He was sick”, is being argued,  “poisoned to death”, according to other sources.