Fertility, Mortality and Migration in Subsaharan Africa The Case of Ovamboland in North Namibia, 1925-90 |
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| Author:
| Notkola, Veijo
Siiskonen, Harri |
| ISBN: | 978-1-280-56487-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $98.00 |
Book Description:
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Scanty evidence has been the major obstacle for studying historical demography in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our most certain knowledge of the development of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century populations is based on a retrospective view of the post-Second World War censuses. In north Namibia the availability of continuous parish records dating from the 1920s, offers excellent possibilities to study population development at a regional level using primary sources. The study...
More DescriptionScanty evidence has been the major obstacle for studying historical demography in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our most certain knowledge of the development of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century populations is based on a retrospective view of the post-Second World War censuses. In north Namibia the availability of continuous parish records dating from the 1920s, offers excellent possibilities to study population development at a regional level using primary sources. The study focuses on analyzing the development of fertility, mortality and internal migration in north Namibia among the Christian population since the mid-1920s to the 1990s, and tries to understand cultural, social, economic and political factors affecting population development.