Fertility, Mortality and Migration in Subsaharan Africa :
[Book]
the Case of Ovamboland in North Namibia, 1925-90.
Veijo Notkola
London
Palgrave Macmillan Limited
2016
(202 pages)
Cover; Fertility, Mortality and Migration in SubSaharan Africa; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Acronyms; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Ovamboland: Ecology, History, Economy, and Culture; 3 Population Development in Namibia; 4 Christianization in Ovamboland; 5 Research Area; 6 Materials and Methods; 7 Quality of Data; 8 Fertility; 9 Mortality; 10 Migration; 11 Summary; Bibliography; Index
Scanty evidence has been the major obstacle for studying historical demography in Subsaharan Africa. Our most certain knowledge of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century populations development is based on a retrospective view of the post-Second World War censuses. In north Namibia the availability of continuous series of parish record data since the 1920s offer excellent possibilities to study population development on a regional level by primary sources. In this study fertility, mortality and internal migration in north Namibia among the Christian population since.