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As a child, your father would've sat in front of a television screen and watched the 9 PM film screening on Doordarshan with ten others - cousins, aunts, uncles and neighbours. There was one T.V. in the house and it belonged to everybody. Today, you watch the latest action flick on your phone, on a screen that fits in your pocket, with two others - earphones and popcorn. The content that you are watching has come a long way, has had a journey, a history. The channels and methods through which it is available to you have witnessed an evolution. As viewers, we have evolved too. Our tastes, preferences, and the ways in which we consume have changed drastically. They have enabled and been the basis of a revolution in the consumption, production and transmission of content.

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Societies are comprised of institutions. Wherever there are rules there are institutions. In an era of free market democratic capitalism, some vital institutions that make societies to be prosperous, are either ignored or taken for granted. This is not surprising knowing there has been institutional evolution over time and contemporary strong institutions are results of historical institutions. This book illustrates historical collective social institutions that are catalysts for modern day's economic successes, and lack of such historical institutions contribute to economic failures in some nations especially nations of sub-Saharan Africa.