Frank Kobina Parkes

Frank Ernest Kobina Parkes ( born 1932, † 2004) was a Ghanaian journalist, broadcaster and author. His training took place in Accra, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

His work began at a newspaper but in order quickly to Radio Ghana as a radio announcer ( 1955). In the following years he was Chairman of the Ghana Society of writers ( Ghanaian society for writers ).

His first poems were in a volume of poems in 1965 under the title Songs from the Wilderness. His work has a tendency to romantic expression, and based on the life in Africa, but describes the dances, culture and the burden of the colonial past. Some see his work influenced by the Senegalese writer David Diop. His work has been published only under his name only in a book of poetry and otherwise in collections of Ghanaian and African writers, of which Kachikali (1971) and Messages ( 1971) are the best known.

In the 1970s, Parks worked for the Ghanaian Ministry of Information in Accra.

• Author
• Literature ( Ghana)
• Artist (Ghana)
• Born in 1932
• Died in 2004
• Man