Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute

The Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute of Economics and Political Science, also known as the Winneba ideological Institute, was an educational body in Winneba, 40 miles from Accra, Ghana. It was founded by Kwame Nkrumah, then Ghana's president, to promote socialism and the decolonization of Africa and, as Nkruham told a meeting of his Bureau of African Affairs in 1960, to be "an institute where selected dedicated members of all nationalist movements of Africa could be rigidly indoctrinated in the realism of African unity". He went on to say that "trainees should be made to realize the Party's ideology is a religion and should be carried out faithfully and fervently." Nkrumah was influenced by his Russian security advisers to use the institute as his selecting ground for future members of the Security Service; at the time, there were approximately 600 Ghanaian students studying in the Soviet Union.