The establishment of the Booker Washington Agricultural
& Industrial Institute of Liberia was a dream come true for the late president
of the Republic of Liberia, Charles Dunbar Burgess King. During an official
visit to the united States of America in 1924, president King was asked by a
reporter to name any thing of significance that he would like to take back to
his country. The President said, " If it were possible I would like to take
Tuskegee Institute with me to Liberia." Even though it was not physically
possible to transplant Tuskegee Institute of the United States to Liberia,
President King's dream of a Tuskegee type institution in Liberia was fulfilled
in 1929....More
History of BWINAANA
It was men and women with vision,
working together for a just cause, that thought of establishing a
national body in North America to which all graduates, former students,
faculty, staff, administrators, and friends of the Booker Washington
Agricultural & Industrial Institute of Liberia could belong. Among those
men and women of vision were Delores Zor-Edwards, Emmett Jones, Emmett
Fiawoo, Arthur K. Watson, Joe Isaac, Bennie D. Warner, Edith Carr,
Daniel R. Henri, Vera Peal-Weah, Paul Mulbah, Samuel T. Rennie, Stephen
A. Sawyer, Femon Padmore, Steven Kpou, Ceasar Gardiner, Roberta Gardiner
and others.....More
