Kwame Arhin Explained

Prof. Kwame Arhin, also known as Nana Arhin Brempong, was a historian and politician in Ghana.

Arhin built his academic career at the University of Ghana, where he was an editor of the Legon Observer and had a long-standing association with the Institute of African Studies (IAS), having first been appointed Research Fellow there in October 1963.^[1] In October 1988 Arhin, who by then had served as acting Director of the Institute of African Studies for a year, was officially appointed successor to Kwesi A. Dickson as Director of the institute.^[2] Arhin served as Director of the IAS until the academic year 1997–8, when on his retirement he was succeeded by George Hagan.

In the 1990s Arhin served as a member of the Council of State and as Chairman of Ghana's National Commission on Culture.

He died on 6 September 2015.

Works

• West African traders in Ghana in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 1979
• Traditional rule in Ghana: past and present, 1985
• A view of Kwame Nkrumah, 1909-1972: an interpretation, 1990
• (ed.) The life and work of Kwame Nkrumah, 1991
• Transformations in traditional rule in Ghana (1951-1966), 2001

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vice Chancellor Mourns With Prof. Arhin’s Family. University of Ghana. 22 September 2015. 5 March 2021.
2. http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/African%20Journals/pdfs/Institue%20of%20African%20Studies%20Research%20Review/1989v5n1/asrv005001007.pdf Report on the Institute for Congregation 1987-88