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Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa, 1900-1980

This monograph could have been written as two books, but the interrelationship between the two themes, sexuality and demographic change, justified their being analysed together. It was researched over nine years, and written over four. To give two examples of the scale of the research, conducting and translating 240 interviews and group discussions involved c.360 days work, while family reconstitution based on c.70,000 life events took nearly a year. Data contained in parish records, hospital registers, censuses and surveys required extensive checking, refinement and cross-referencing, but their analysis led to conclusions which profoundly challenge established theories about African demographic change.