Business and its Managers in Africa

This paper is based largely on impressions gained during thirty months' residence in Tanganyika and one year at the University of Khartoum.

Educational systems tend to turn out the equivalent of business school graduates with shorthand, accounting, typing, filing, and other mechanical skills; or university graduates with honors degrees in theoretical neo-classical economics. The gulf between is obvious and explains the present scramble to establish schools of business administration and commerce in African universities. It is in this area, perhaps more than in any other, that United States universities may make a clear contribution.