Frank Kobina Parkes

Frank Kobina Parkes, whose civil name was Francis Ernest Kobina Parkes, was born in 1932 in Korle Bu, the son of a pharmacist from Sierra Leone. Educated at Adisadel College, in Cape Coast, he was for a time a journalist, then joined Radio Ghana in 1955, which broadcast his first poems. Langston Hughes selected one of them as early as 1960 for an anthology of African literature published in New York, which made him known outside Ghana. He died in Accra on 23 May 2004.

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• PoetrySongs from the WildernessFrank Kobina Parkes · 1965Literature