# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nii-ayikwei-parkes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:34:12.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nii-ayikwei-parkes"
name: "Nii Ayikwei Parkes"
slug: "nii-ayikwei-parkes"
description: "Nii Ayikwei Parkes, 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. He writes for children under the name K.P. Kojo."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2015_Neustadt_Festival_Opening_Night_-_22570580312.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1974-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.83
  momentum:             0.4265402843601896
  historical:           8.80792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ني باركس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نى باركس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nii Parkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nii_Ayikwei_Parkes"
    title: "Nii Ayikwei Parkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nii_Parkes"
    title: "Nii Parkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nii_Ayikwei_Parkes"
    title: "Nii Ayikwei Parkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nii_Ayikwei_Parkes"
    title: "Nii Ayikwei Parkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nii_Ayikwei_Parkes"
    title: "Nii Ayikwei Parkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nii_Parkes"
    title: "Nii Parkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nii_Parkes"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump