WI Malagasy technology transfers to southern Africa?

I don't know much about Malagasy technology but they had rice, chicken, and outrigger boats (possibly sail), plus fishing and various house building techniques. What would happen if they made contact with mainland Africa and transfered their know how? Rice is doing pretty well in Mozambique. Perhaps African cattle could be adapted as draft animals.

It would be cool if the Malagasy manage to transplant the elephant bird to southern Africa and something could be done with it.
 
Well, bananas made it to Africa, and that was HUGE. Africa really has a fair amount of grains, and banana agriculture involves the same kind of group work as rice - in any case, the Chagga people were doing terraced irrigation. Africans had pretty good canoes, even boats. There were two hundred men boats in Uganda.

For some reason, SS Africa is the place were technology goes to die. Agricultural tools ended with the hoe, despite Egypt having the foot plough thousands of years earlier. They had oxen and well maintained roads but no carts. It's almost as if iron working was a fluke.

I personally think it's because of a deep neophobia in most Bantu cultures, due to ancestor veneration. Then again, much was lost. I can across an old ethnography about a tribe that kept pet ostriches. But, then came Rinderpest - any available ostrich, domestic or not, would have been eaten.
 
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