Patrick Dankwa Anin

{{Short description|Ghanaian politician (1928–1999)}}

{{Use Ghanaian English|date=January 2023}}

Patrick Dankwa Anin (27 July 1928 – 24 October 1999){{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SC4aAAAAYAAJ&q=Patrick+Dankwa+Anin+1928 | title=The International Who's who 2000| isbn=9781857430509| last1=Publication| first1=Europe| last2=63Rd| first2=Ed| year=1999}} was a foreign minister of Ghana in the Second Republic.

He died in 1999.{{cite web|url=http://rulers.org/fm2.html |title=Foreign ministers E-K - Ghana |access-date=2007-04-12 |author=B. Schemmel |work=Lists of heads of state of government and ministers of various countries |publisher=Rulers.org}}

He was the first foreign minister to be appointed in the Progress Party government by Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, the Prime Minister of Ghana. He served for a few months and was replaced by Victor Owusu. He was reappointed later the same year and held the position for two years.

Anin served on a five-man Presidential Commission into Bribery and Corruption in 1970.{{cite web |last1=Aryee |first1=Joseph Atsu |title=THE ROOTS OF CORRUPTION: THE GHANAIAN ENQUIRY REVISITED |url=https://www.africaportal.org/documents/16791/The-Roots-of-Corruption-.pdf |website=www.africaportal.org |publisher=The Institute of Economic Affairs, Ghana |access-date=29 March 2020 |location=Accra, Ghana |page=27 |date=2016}}

He also served as a Supreme Court judge from 1980 after having been nominated by President Limann.{{cite journal |title=Judiciary Urged to Ensure Democratic Rule |journal=Ghana News |date=October 1980 |volume=9 |issue=10 |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAwbx_PKGxsC&q=p+d+anim |access-date=24 November 2019}}

He died on 24 October 1999.{{cite web| url=http://www.grondweteuropa.nl/9326000/1f/j9vvgn5o5i819wf/vgaxlcr0e01v?start_008_054=10 |title=Ghana |access-date=2007-04-12 |language=nl |publisher=GroundWet Europa}}