Andry Rajoelina

Andry Rajoelina is one of those biographies that makes you do a double take: a former disc jockey who became president of Madagascar. From Antsirabe to the national stage, he rose through the 2009 crisis as one of the youngest leaders to run a country, and that sheer audacity is hard to ignore. I won't pretend to settle the debates around his rule, but the narrative arc, from the turntables to the helm of a nation, is genuinely cinematic. To me he's proof that unconventional paths to power exist across every era and continent, a figure impossible to look away from.

Name (English)

Andry Rajoelina

Name (Japanese)

アンドリー・ラジョエリナ

Reading

あんどりー・らじょえりな

Born

May 30, 1974 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Tiger

Origin

Antsirabe, Madagascar

Occupation

politician / disc jockey

Awards & achievements

• National Order of Madagascar

• Official sitehttp://www.andry-rajoelina.org/
• Xhttps://x.com/se_rajoelina
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andry%20Rajoelina
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%83%8A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57363

Tags

• politician
• disc jockey

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.