iamjeff

Really neat solution.

Is this in any way based on Amazon Polly?

The reliability of demographic data across Sub-Sahara Africa is a significant problem for a multitude of research disciplines.

But there's been a host of severe famines since World War II across the Sahel. It is possible that the reliability of birth data would have improved over this period to a degree sufficient to support research techniques.

In fact, there's been research along these lines in SSA already, especially regarding the impact of malnourishment on intellectual development among other factors.

Still, important research that goes to show that famines have generational effects that extend all the way to the genetic level.

It would be equally worthwhile to see the impact of famines in Sub-Sahara Africa on genes of Africans (especially across the Sahel).