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Birth Name:

Frank Kobina Parkes

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Mar 08, 1932

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Korle Bu Hospital, Greater Accra, Ghana

Age:

92

Zodiac Sign:

Pisces

Astrology Data:

Sun

17°

Pis

43'

About Frank Kobina Parkes

Frank Kobina Parkes (8 March 1932 – 23 May 2004) was a Ghanaian journalist, broadcaster and poet. He was the author of one book, Songs from the Wilderness (University of London Press, 1965), but is widely anthologised and is perhaps best known for his poem "African Heaven", which echoes the title of Carl Van Vechten's controversial 1926 novel Nigger Heaven, and was selected by Langston Hughes for inclusion in the groundbreaking anthology of African writing An African Treasury (1960). Parkes' poetic style, an intelligent, rhythmic free verse brimming with confidence and undercut with humour, is believed to owe much to the Senegalese poet David Diop, one of the pioneers of the négritude movement. Reviewing Songs from the Wilderness, Mbella Sonne Dipoko said: "Mr Parkes is one of the fine poets writing today about Africa and the world." The book was hailed as "...a landmark not only in Ghanaian poetry but in African poetry as a whole".

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Categories related to Frank Kobina Parkes: 20th-century male writers, March 8 births, 2004 deaths, 1932 births, 20th-century journalists, 20th-century Ghanaian poets, Ghanaian journalists, Alumni of Adisadel College, Ghanaian male poets