Reframing African Business Education through Collaboration, Innovation, and Impact

Author(s):

 Maurice Radebe¹ Imhotep Paul Alagidede²

Imhotep.alagidede@wits.ac.za
2025-12-03 13:42:58

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Abstract

Africa’s business schools stand at a strategic inflection point. As the Association of African Business Schools (AABS) marks its twentieth anniversary, the sector must evolve from knowledge transmission to system transformation. This article develops a practice-grounded framework the CII Agenda (Collaboration, Innovation, Impact) that reorients African management education toward coalition-building across academia–industry–policy, curriculum and venture innovation that embed frontier technologies, and measurable societal outcomes beyond rankings. Drawing on illustrative initiatives associated with African business schools, the paper advances implementable pillars, governance mechanisms, and evaluation metrics capable of translating scholarship into entrepreneurial ecosystems, inclusive prosperity, and resilient institutions over the next two decades and beyond.

Keywords
African business schools; Collaboration; Innovation; Impact; Entrepreneurship; Curriculum reform; AI; fintech; blockchain; inclusive growth; ecosystem building

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