Population, health and nutrition in the Sahel: issues in the welfare of selected West African communities

ch. 1. Issues in the study of the demography of Sahelian pastoralists and agro-pastoralists / Allan G. Hill and Sara Randall -- ch. 2. The recent demographic surveys in Mali and their main findings / Allan G. Hill -- ch. 3. The enumeration of nomads and semi-nomads : methodology and selected results from the 1976 census of Mali / Bibi Diawara -- ch. 4. A demographic profile of the Fulani of central Mali with special emphasis on infant and child mortality / Marie-Louise van den Eerenbeemt -- ch. 5. Demographic characteristics and trends amongst the nomads of Mauritania / Baba Traore -- ch. 6. Mixed herding and the demographic parameters of domestic animals in arid and semi-arid zones of tropical Africa / R.T. Wilson, Abdrahamane Diallo and Klaas Wagenaar -- ch. 7. Land tenure practice and development problems in Mali : the case of the Niger Delta / Salmana Cisse -- ch. 8. The reluctant spouse and the illegitimate slave : marriage, household formation and demographic behaviour amongst Malian Tamasheq from the Niger Delta and the Gourma / Sara Randall and Michael Winter.