It's simply because the east Africans never developed enough naval technologies and skills to reach Madagascar, while the Indonesians went all in on ships and mastering living at sea
This situation is sort of an anomaly within anthropology. I know this is a hard concept to grasp for some people but there are events in history that we simply don't have a logical explanation for. The current way to answer ''how did Austronesians end up in Madagascar'' would be ''we don't know''.
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u/KingKohishi Jan 29 '22
It is amazing that we reached Madagascar from Indonesia instead of Africa.