Ceibs, the Shanghai-based business school which runs the largest executive MBA programme in the world, has officially launched the programme outside China - in Africa.

The two-year programme, run in Accra, Ghana, has 42 students in the first cohort - 30 from Ghana and the rest from Nigeria. The plan is to open the programme to managers throughout Africa, says Kwaku Atuahene-Gima, head of the Ceibs marketing department and boss of the Accra programme.