Project Management as a Discipline in Africa

Abstract

Project Management, while having been regarded as a simple song by most professionals in Africa, has been found wanting in terms of its footing as a discipline in the African continent. Of late, most professionals have been hitch-hiking into Project Management as a field of study from their original academic backgrounds. On its related literature, this Paper is going to look at various opinions which have been viewed in project management and regarded as factual researches while being unconventional researches based on business conferences and business deals exchanges of information. This paper is going to elaborate the importance of conventional fact finding based researches and how crucial they are in establishing a properly constituent field of study in Project Management. It is also going to highlight how effective and non effective(on Project Management), the current short-term courses and offered programmes as well as Post Graduate Diplomas being offered all around in Africa by African Institutes. The creation of professional ethical confusion on academic capabilities and technical application of experience in Project Management and its contribution to percentages of successes and failures of projects on the ground.Conclusively, the paper is going to run through possible recommendations on the way forward in trying to establish Project Management as a field of Study in Africa and the contribution to projects success in the continent.