Margibi County – The once-prestigious Booker Washington Institute (BWI), long regarded as Liberia’s model center of excellence in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), is today a shadow of its former self. By: Yawah Y. Jaivey, [email protected]The Booker Washington Institute, a public post-secondary institution located in Kakata, Margibi County, was founded in 1929 as the Booker Washington Agricultural and Industrial Institute. Administration SilentEfforts by FrontPage Africa to obtain a comment from Dr. Nancy T. Freeman, Principal of the Booker Washington Institute (BWI), were unsuccessful. BWI has been under heightened scrutiny from President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, who in 2025 dissolved the boards of the Booker Washington Institute, the Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI), and William V.S. Meanwhile, in January this year, President Boakai reappointed the remaining members of the Booker Washington Institute Board to enable them to complete their unexpired terms.
