Jacques Rabemananjara

Jacques Rabemananjara
Second Vice President of Madagascar
In office
February 1971  May 1972
PresidentPhilibert Tsiranana
Personal details
Born(1913-06-23)23 June 1913
Maroantsetra, French Madagascar
Died2 April 2005(2005-04-02) (aged 91)
Paris, France
EducationAntananarivo
OccupationPolitician, playwright and poet
Known forPolitics and poetry

Jacques Rabemananjara (23 June 1913 2 April 2005) was a Malagasy politician, playwright and poet. He served as a government minister, rising to Vice President of Madagascar. Rabemananjara was said to be the most prolific writer of his negritude generation after Senghor, and he had the first négritude poetry published.