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Nii Ayikwei Parkes is a writer, editor, socio-cultural commentator and performance poet.

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A 2007 recipient of Ghana's national ACRAG award for poetry and literary advocacy, he has held visiting positions at the University of Southampton and California State University and is the author of four poetry chapbooks including eyes of a boy, lips of a man and the Michael Marks Award-shortlisted,ballast: a remix (2009), described in the Guardian as, “An astonishing, powerful remix of history and language”.

Nii's event-specific commissions include a reading for the London Mayor’s vigil on July 14, 2005 (in response to the London bombings). He also writes for children under the pseudonym K.P. Kojo.

As an advocate for African writing, Nii runs the African Writers’ Evening series, at the Royal Festival Hall and contributes journalism on the subject.

He was a 2005 associate Writer-In-Residence on BBC Radio 3 and t