Profile:
Kwame Arhin was 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. In October 1987 Professor 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. Professor Arhin served as Director of the IAS until the academic year 1995, when on his retirement he was succeeded by Professor George Hagan. In the 1990s Professor Arhin served as a member of the Council of State and as chairman of Ghana's National Commission of Culture. He died on 6th September 2015.Some of his publications includes:
- 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.