It is located about 200 kilo meters from Kampala. The institute has a long history of providing ideological direction to Uganda in order to enable them to regain their power, freedom and lndependence as provided in article 1 of Uganda`s 1995 constitution as you are aware , political education was the pillar of the 1981 to 1986 liberation struggle.

Formal political education was started in 1985 in Mugusu Kabarole to mobilize Ugandans and enlight them about the mission and objectives of the liberation war, and to give them harmonised perceptions about what to do.