French arrival transformed Malagasy identity and psychology. [fact]
What M. Mannoni has forgotten is that the Malagasy alone no longer exists; he has forgotten that the Malagasy exists with the European. The arrival of the white man in Madagascar shattered not only its horizons but its psychological mechanisms. … A new element having been introduced, it became mandatory to seek to understand the new relationships.
Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, loc. 353