Nii ayikwei parkes biography
Nii ayikwei parkes biography
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Nii Parkes
British performance poet, writer, publisher and broadcaster (born 1974)
Nii Ayikwei Parkes (;[2] born 1 April 1974),[3] born in the United Kingdom to parents from Ghana, where he was raised, is a performance poet, writer, publisher and sociocultural commentator.
He is one of 39 writers aged under 40 from sub-Saharan Africa who in April 2014 were named as part of the Hay Festival's prestigious Africa39 project.[4] He writes for children under the name K.P. Kojo.[5]
Biography
Born in the UK while his parents were studying there, Nii Parkes was raised from the age of three or four in Ghana,[6] where he was educated at Achimota School.
His first editorial role was in 1988 working on his school magazine, The Achimotan, and he went on to co-found, at the age of 17, filla! magazine, Ghana's first student-run national magazine.[7] Parkes subsequently studied in England at Manchester Metropolitan Universit