African business schools

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Is Africa being colonised by foreign business schools teaching irrelevant subjects to local students? It's a controversy set off by Professor Walter Baets of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. He suggested an influx of western and non-African business schools is 'another wave of colonisation'. Lesley Curwen put Professor Baets' criticisms to Professor Kwaku Atuahene-Gima, Executive Director of the CEIBS Africa Programme in Accra in Ghana. He rejected them, arguing that CEIBS, the China Europe International Business School, is teaching innovation and socially useful business models suitable for Africa. Plus, the Irish writer and comedian Colm O'Regan muses on holidays, out of office replies and schadenfreude.