Ngleshi/North Kaneshie boy, editor, social commentator, lecturer and writer. Début novel Tail of the Blue Bird now available in UK stores and via amazon: http://tr.im/lxl8
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Cosmobar
Tuesday, July 7 at 7:00pm


Nii Ayikwei Parkes A sort of best-of-the-lot review of Tail of the Blue Bird in the FT - ideal review platform for a nerd like me :) http://tr.im/r2Pr


Nii Ayikwei Parkes My daughter's crawling speed is picking up like crazy. I've got to improve my surveillance skills :)


Nii Ayikwei Parkes Roddick may have no finesse, but he's consistent. Murray's first serve percentage needs to go up....


Nii Ayikwei Parkes Just got offer for German rights for 'Tail of the Blue Bird' - more soon...


Lydia at 11:10am July 2
Cheers-Keep up the good work!
Nii Ayikwei Parkes at 4:45pm July 2
@Kobe - it means that there will definitely be a German translation of the novel. The rights sales people are just thrashing out terms etc...


Nii Ayikwei Parkes OK, I have to give it up for Tesco's new Mango/Blackcurrant sorbet - it's the bizniz!! :)
Nii Ayikwei Parkes at 7:53am July 1
@Andrew - never on contract, but when my belly speaks it speaks! @Beryl - the vocabulary is in the taste; I'll smuggle some to you at the earliest opportunity...
Beryl at 8:30am July 1
Will be waiting :-)


Nii Ayikwei Parkes
'Ugly' fruit back on sale: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/ 8127461.stm - about time we got real. Kids think all is made perfect!


Nii Ayikwei Parkes Virgin charge astronomical rates to change flight bookings on economy! Trying to sort out Helon Habila's travel for AWE: @AfricanWriters


Nii Ayikwei Parkes http://twitpic.com/8urig - My sweet press crew found and scanned the actual Independent review for me. It's the 'Tuesday Book'!


Nii Ayikwei Parkes Review of 'Tail of the Blue Bird' in the Independent - some inaccuracies re: Kayo's job, name spellings... but hey... http://tr.im/qh6Y


Nii Ayikwei Parkes My thoughts on the new roof: http://tr.im/q4wC PLUS it seems I'm on the AQAa English Lit syllabus - optional, but... http://tr.im/q4XE


Nii Ayikwei Parkes Stolen from @questlove - Dwele's [ @THEREALDWELE ] tribute to MJJ - http://tr.im/q0IX


Nii Ayikwei Parkes All my Wimbledon ramblings: http://tr.im/pXIL | http://tr.im/pXIQ | http://tr.im/pUth | http://tr.im/pXJg - more to follow...


Nii Ayikwei Parkes
My day @ Wimbledon: http://bit.ly/OycuZ
- there will be stuff later :)


Nii Ayikwei Parkes Really cool review of 'Tail of the Blue Bird' up on @TheBookBag http://tr.im/pP77 - Thanks, Lesley Mason (reviewer) - may life love you!


Nii Ayikwei Parkes Rip MJ. I used to sit by my radio in Accra, just waiting for your voice to break through the static so I could press record. Miss U BAD.


Nii Ayikwei Parkes For the few people who wonder about the Akan words in my novel, there's a really cool online dictionary: kasahorow - http://tr.im/pyL9


Nii Ayikwei Parkes My appearance on THE STRAND - lead item: http://tr.im/plq9
Source: tr.im
Nii Parkes, Shirin, Indonesia Punk, Vincent Cassel.


Nii Ayikwei Parkes RT @EliseBlackwell Two lit agents new to twitter host contest: pitch/twitch your bk proposal in 140. Info: @BookEndsKim @BookEndsJessica


Nii Ayikwei Parkes Anyone know if Nigerian novelist Nkem Nwankwo is survived by a wife, any children?


Nii Ayikwei Parkes Started a blog for questions on the book ('cos I've been getting some) and to figure out how the book is travelling. There's a little survey on the side - please participate: http://tr.im/pbEK :) It has my twitter updates too...


Nii Ayikwei Parkes There is some k.o. review of 'Tail of the Blue Bird' in Spanish: http://tr.im/oYQu - Nice... I'll have to update my language skills


Lydia at 3:30pm June 18
I speak Spanish very well. This is a very good synopsis of the story of "Tail of the Blue Bird". On another note Amazon US does not have your book on sale so I will have to order it from the Amazon UK site... I wonder why it is still not on sale here on their US site..
Cheers,
Lydia
Cheers,
Lydia
Nii Ayikwei Parkes at 4:30pm June 18
see, you have language skills to spare. btw there are several very famous songs about sempe - i'll see if i can track any down for you.


Lydia at 5:42pm June 18
OH, Thank you! I speak read and write the European languages, French, Spanish, Portuguese, also Ligwala from Central Africa, and read Arabic...I would love to hear some of the Sempe music if you can find any. Thanks,
Cheers
Cheers


Nii Ayikwei Parkes Apparently EPP Books in Ghana have ordered 200 copies of Tail of the Blue Bird - nice to know somebody likes me back home :)


Nii Ayikwei Parkes http://twitpic.com/7mgp3 - Say Qs & Ps! A friend just caught 'Tail of the Blue Bird' on display at Waterstones - Kings Road, London


partying to the top of the bestseller lists :)
It's the OFFICIAL launch party for my novel Tail of the Blue Bird (TOTBB) with music provided by DJ Nevada. Come & chill and help me celebrate the release of my début novel. ...
Host:Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, July 7th
Location:Cosmobar


Nii Ayikwei Parkes http://twitpic.com/7j6v3 - finally managed to track down a copy of the TLS review. thanks @niven_govinden for the heads up
Tom at 3:09am June 16
terrific review Nii - good work.
Nii Ayikwei Parkes at 11:22am June 16
thanks peeps. may many more come...


Nii Ayikwei Parkes Magic System - Premier Gaou: HUGE TUNE!! On dit premier gaou n'est pas gaou oh... C'est deuxième gaou qui est niata oh ah... :)


Nii Ayikwei Parkes Not such a walk in the park after all - UK tennis commentators, huh? Good thing the Murray doesn't listen to you :)


It's been almost four years now since the 7/7 bombings in London and - in the aftermath - I was honoured to be asked by the then mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, to read a poem at the vigil held on July 14 2005 for the victims...
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes from FT: As Sherlock Holmes observed, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."