{"id":"monja-jaona","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/monja-jaona","language":"en","name":"Monja Jaona","name_en":"Monja Jaona","name_ne":null,"description":"Malagasy anti-imperialist (1910-1994)","headline":"Malagasy anti-imperialist (1910-1994)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Monja Jaona was a Malagasy politician and early nationalist who significantly drove political events on the island during his lifetime. He was a member of Jiny, a militant nationalist group formed in southern Madagascar in the 1940s that sided with MDRM during the ultimately unsuccessful Malagasy Uprising of 1947 against French rule. The colonial government imprisoned him from 1946 to 1950 for his affiliation with Jiny. He formed the Madagascar for the Malagasy (MONIMA) party in 1958 and successfully campaigned for the seat of mayor in Toliara, a position he held from 1959 to 1961. He came to view president Philibert Tsiranana and his Social Democratic Party (PSD) supporters as unduly favorable to continued French interests on the island after independence in 1960. Jaona instigated the 1971–72 rotaka farmer and student protests that successfully forced Tsiranana's resignation.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"September 1910","date":"1910-09"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16013228#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Amboasary","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q988775"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16013228#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"3 September 1994","date":"1994-09-03"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16013228#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Antananarivo","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3915"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16013228#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Madagascar","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1019"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16013228#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16013228#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Madagascar for the Malagasy","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6726154"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16013228#P102"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Member of the National Assembly of Madagascar (1983–1989)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21295989","start":"1983","end":"1989"},{"text":"mayor (1959–1961)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30185","start":"1959","end":"1961"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16013228#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monja_Jaona","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16013228"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Monja Jaona born?","a":"Monja Jaona was born on September 1910 in Amboasary."},{"q":"What positions has Monja Jaona held?","a":"Positions held by Monja Jaona include: Member of the National Assembly of Madagascar (1983–1989); mayor (1959–1961)."}],"related":[{"name":"Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lucien-xavier-michel-andrianarahinjaka"},{"name":"Albert Zafy","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/albert-zafy"},{"name":"Andrew Johnson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/andrew-johnson"},{"name":"Ehud Olmert","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ehud-olmert"},{"name":"Hussein Khalidi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hussein-khalidi"},{"name":"Ekrem İmamoğlu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ekrem-imamoglu"},{"name":"Nir Barkat","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nir-barkat"},{"name":"Bill Haslam","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-haslam"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/monja-jaona-4121da1a61.jpg","width":500,"height":658,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Unknown author Unknown author","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monja_Jaona_in_1945,_aged_35.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Monja Jaona","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monja_Jaona","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q16013228","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16013228","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Monja Jaona in 1945, aged 35.jpg by Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monja_Jaona_in_1945,_aged_35.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Monja Jaona, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Monja Jaona in 1945, aged 35.jpg — Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain.","cite":"\"Monja Jaona\". DigiNepal. Last updated 9 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/monja-jaona. Retrieved 12 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-09T07:56:11Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-12","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/monja-jaona","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/monja-jaona","ne":null}}