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A CASE FOR COMMUNITY RADIO IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OKUAMA, EKU AND JEDDO COMMUNITIES IN DELTA CENTRAL SENATORIAL DISTRICT CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study For so many years, development as a concept was used to purely describe economic growth alone. This is so because economic growth was  often considered from the perspectives of the Gross National Product (GNP) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a country which were used as a standard for measuring development. With time it was discovered that the definition was not encompassing as economic growth alone could no longer be used to measure the infallible index of human and national prosperity. Nwabueze (2005, p.3), citing Rogers (1976) defines development as a “widely participatory process of social change in a society, intended to bring about social and material advancement for the majority of people through their gaining control over their environment”. In citing Edeani (1993), Okunna (2002, p. 294) locates his perc