In full:
Francis Ernest Kobina Parkes
Born:
1932, Korle Bu, Gold Coast [now Ghana]
Died:
May 23, 2004, Accra, Ghana (aged 72)

Frank Kobina Parkes (born 1932, Korle Bu, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died May 23, 2004, Accra, Ghana) Ghanaian journalist, broadcaster, and poet whose style and great confidence in the future of Africa owe much to the Senegalese poet David Diop. Parkes was educated in Accra, Ghana, and Freetown, Sierra Leone. He worked briefly as a newspaper reporter and editor and in 1955 joined the staff of Radio Ghana as a broadcaster. He was president of the Ghana Society of Writers (later the Ghana Association of Writers) and published a volume of poems, Songs from the Wilderness (1965). From the early 1970s ...(100 of 232 words)