Prof. Kwame Arhin, also known as Nana Arhin Brempong, was a

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and

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. Arhin built his academic career at the

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, where he was an editor of the ''

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'' and had a long-standing association with the

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(IAS), having first been appointed Research Fellow there in October 1963. 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.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

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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

References

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