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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[1]