title: Malthus, the 18thcentury European explorers and the principle of population in Africa.
abstract: In the second edition of his Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus included twelve chapters that offer a remarkable description of population dynamics from all corners of the world. His discussion of (sub-Saharan) Africa was almost entirely based on the travel accounts of James Bruce and Mungo Park, two late eighteenth century British explorers. In this essay, I introduce these sources and discuss the insights that Malthus did, or perhaps should have, derived from both.
authors.affiliation: Office of Population Research, Princeton University.
authors.forename: Georges
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Reniers