Kwame Arhin

Prof. Kwame Arhin, also known as Nana Arhin Brempong, is 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. 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.^[1] He served as Director of the Institute until the academic year 1997-8, when he was succeeded by George Hagan.

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

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

References

^ Report on the Institute for Congregation 1987-88, Research Review NS, Vol. 5 No. 1 (1989)

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