Education as developmentEven though the use of education was an early approach to communitydevelopment, its history dates back even further, being first conceived ofby the British Colonial Office in the 1920s, although it was not applied, inAfrica, until the 1940s. Ghana launched its first mass literacy andeducation campaign in 1951, which was soon after adopted by the nearbyFrench colonies (Manghezi 1976: 41)