In the African context, when stones and calabash meet one will break. This book chronicles different strategies and theories on community development and community mobilisation in a developing country. This is a practical book with practical solutions on community engagement and community mobilisation at different levels. The book gives the different levels of community. For development workers the book gives practical theory to community engagement on critical issues affecting the community. It economically empowers community from health, economic and political shock in the developing countries. The book offers answers to some of the challenges facing the communities today. The book gives unedited data from a rural community engagement process and to the final implementation of their needs. For one to have an appreciation of how to do a community research work, this book will put to rest all the questions.

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A Community development specialist with more than 13 years of real life practical experience in community engagement. He holds a Masters in Development studies from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, SA . Community development is incomplete without his ideologies. Oliver gives ethnographic strategies with real life solutions.