ESAMI Business School

ESAMI is an Inter-Governmental regional management development organization established in 1980 and currently owned by ten African member states. These include Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It was established in 1980 to service the eastern and southern African countries. In 1997, through a resolution... of the Council of Ministers, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) designated ESAMI as a centre of Excellence for Management Development in Africa. This effectively transformed ESAMI into the African Management Institute with a coverage of the whole of Africa. ESAMI is headquartered in Arusha, Tanzania and in keeping with international conventions has a headquarter agreement with the government of the United Republic of Tanzania. It enjoys diplomatic cover in Tanzania and in all other member states. ESAMI has a tripartite mandate: Management Consultancy; Management Training and Education; and Applied Management Research. ESAMI is well known in Africa and beyond for its quality management training and education; consultancy and advisory services; research and promotion of successful management and leadership practices. ESAMI offers in addition to its range of short term management training executive master programmes which have developed a lot of interest and demand on the continent and beyond. Some of the on-going masters programmes are MBA, MBA (Transport Economics and Logistics Management); and MBA (Customs Administration and Management). ESAMI also hosts the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (trapca), a project jointly implemented by ESAMI and Lund University of Sweden under Sida support.Read More