Kwame Arhin

{{short description|Ghanaian politician and historian}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.ug.edu.gh/news/vice-chancellor-mourns-prof-arhin%E2%80%99s-family|title=Vice Chancellor Mourns With Prof. Arhin’s Family|publisher=University of Ghana|date=22 September 2015|access-date=5 March 2021}} 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.[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], Research Review NS, Vol. 5 No. 1 (1989) 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.