| Titre | Démographie et écologie en Afrique orientale à la fin du XIXe siècle : une crise exceptionnelle ? | |
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| Auteur | Jean-Pierre Chrétien | |
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Revue | Cahiers d'études africaines |
| Numéro | Vol. 27, no 105-106, 1987 Démographie historique | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Démographie historique |
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| Page | 43-59 | |
| Résumé anglais |
J.-P. Chretien— Demography and Ecology in East Africa at the End of the icth Century : An Exceptional Crisis?
Recent publications on East Africa in the 19th century and surveys on the history of the plains bordering lake Tanganyika in Burundi permit to critieize the stereo-typed opinion opposing a 'traditional' demographie standstill to a progress due to colonization. A relative prosperity is, indeed, broken off by a both demographie and economie crisis which reaches its peak between 1890 and 1930: the insecurity created by the Arab slave trade and European expeditions combines with droughts, locust invasion, cattle-plague, smallpox and sleeping sickness. It might be that the population of some regions then decreased by at least fifty per cent. Other crises probably affected East Africa (in about 1830 and 1870-1880), but their importance and impact can only be assessed through a cautious interpretation of scattered and indirect sources (hydrographical data, oral traditions...) which should be system-atically put back in their geographical and ecological setting. The history of societies and that of landscapes are closely linked. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cea_0008-0055_1987_num_27_105_3192 |
