The Demography of Tropical Africa by William Brass, Ansley J. Coale, Paul Demeny, Don F. Heisel, Frank Lorimer, Anatole Romaniuk, and Etienne van de Walk. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1968. pp.xxiv + 540.

This book is a fascinating "who done it" and a thriller of thefirst order. That is if one has the stamina and the equipment to workone's way through it. Your reviewer considers himself a traineddemographer and comes out of possibly the most rigorous demographicschool. He was an Africanist for" many years. He worked with one of themain techniques employed in this book for ten years and was familiarwith another group of methods used by the authors for fifteen years. Yethe found it tough going. The book is long and difficult. One wonders whowill be the readers.