Population Growth in a Kenya Community

Population figures based on surveys conducted in 1957 and 1967 are presented for the Gusii community of "Nyansongo" in southwestern Kenya. The figures suggest a considerable increase in population, possibly even greater than that for Kenya as a whole, which has one of the highest rates of natural increase in Africa. The social consequences of such an increase are referred to, and emphasis is given to the need for ethnographic restudy of communities.