NPR's Special Africa correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault's new book, New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance, chronicles modern day life and the changes happening on the continent.

NPR: Gault Book Details 'Africa's Renaissance'

North, a Nobel Prize-winning economic historian, asserts in his book Structure and Change in Economic History that when most of mankind stopped being hunter-gatherers 10, 000 years ago and settled down to farm, there was a basic shift from common property rights to exclusive ones.

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