ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on definitions of globalization as it deals with the whole issue of how an African-centred management education will fare or thrive in our current globalization era. It looks at African-centred management education in a globalized era without looking at globalization at least in general terms, its contents and discontents, and how it will impact management education in general and African-centred management education in particular. The chapter focuses on African-centred management education and globalization by paraphrasing Mahatma Gandhi's observation on globalization. Management education in a globalizing world must understand that one of the discontents of globalization is the fact that globalization has resulted in the widening of the gap between the haves and have-nots in our world today. In the era of globalization, African-centred management education must be willing to be influenced by other cultures and ideas and it must communicate with other cultures.