Francis Ernest Kobina Parkes (1932-03-08)8 March 1932 Korle Bu, Ghana
Died
23 May 2004(2004-05-23) (aged 72) Korle Bu, Accra, Ghana
Occupation
Writer
Period
1960–2004
Genre
Poetry
Literary movement
Negritude
Notable works
"African Heaven"
Frank Kobina Parkes (8 March 1932 – 23 May 2004)[1] 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."[2] The book was hailed as "...a landmark not only in Ghanaian poetry but in African poetry as a whole".[3]
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^Mbella Sonne Dipoko, Présence Africaine, quoted in Hans M. Zell, Carol Bundy & Virginia Coulon (eds), A New Reader's Guide to African Literature, Heinemann Educational Books, 1983, p. 136.
^M. Bulane, The New African, quoted in Zell, Bundy & Coulon (1983), p. 136.
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