ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the efforts to find out where things went wrong and who was to blame for the underdevelopment of management education in Africa. It looks at colonial education and the impact it had on management and business education, with the conclusion that the colonial masters trained Africans to be servants, cooks, and clerks to help them in their homes in lower-level jobs in the colonial enterprise. The chapter focuses on one are going to learn from the past, about how colonial education in Africa has contributed to Africa's underdevelopment. It focuses on the history of management education in Africa from the colonial era through the post-colonial and post post-colonial eras. Furthermore, colonial education in Africa brainwashed indigenous people to discard their cultures and embrace Western cultures and beliefs that were supposedly superior, resulting in cultural dependency, mental enslavement, and a sense of inferiority.
