Booker Washington Institute

The Booker T. Washington Institute Inc. (BWI) was founded in 1929; the realization of a dream envisaged by the late Liberian President Charles D. B. King and made possible with support from the Phelps Stokes Foundation, of New York, U.S.A. and the Board of the Methodist Church in the U.S. A. The Institute is named in honor of the late African American Economics Right Leader, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915). The founding fathers’ overriding purpose for establishing the institution was the training of young middle-level technicians and professionals to contribute to Liberia’s construction and development undertakings. The institute owns and is situated on 1,086 acres of land donated by the tribal chiefs of the Kakata locale to President King for the establishment of the Institute’s campus facilities. Since its foundation, BWI has provided a significant part of the solution to the national shortage of trained middle-level technicians, aspiring engineers, architects, agriculturists, businessmen and women, and national leaders.