This note offers some comments on Theophilus Nkansah’s article entitled, ‘The Role of Adult Literacy in Community Development in Ghana: Perceptions and Experiences of Two Rural Communities’, which was published in the previous issue of this journal (Vol. 4, Iss. 3, pp. 272–293). It aims to share some of the more interesting and insightful aspects of Nkansah’s article and draw attention to the commonalities between Ghana and India in their rural development practice and history.
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