Frank Kobina Parkes

Frank Kobina Parkes (born 1932, Korle Bu, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died May 23, 2004, Accra, Ghana) was a 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...