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Lesley Lokko

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Ghanaian architect and writer

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Lesley Naa Norle Lokko is a Ghanaian-Scottish academic, and novelist. From 2019 to 2020, she was a professor and served as dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, in addition to holding teaching and other positions in Johannesburg, London, Accra and Edinburgh.

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Lesley Lokko
said · May 14, 2023
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It is an opportunity to talk to the rest of the world about Africa, and also to talk to Africa from here (Venice).

Patricia Leigh Brown, Setting the Stage for Africa at the Venice Architecture Biennale, The New York Times, May 14, 2023.

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Lesley Lokko
said · May 14, 2023
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When you are African, you speak to a world that has an existing view of who and what you are. You walk with this kind of label.

Patricia Leigh Brown, Setting the Stage for Africa at the Venice Architecture Biennale, The New York Times, May 14, 2023.

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Lesley Lokko
said · May 14, 2023
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I’ve always thought of ‘race’ as a powerfully creative category of exploration and expression.

Patricia Leigh Brown, Setting the Stage for Africa at the Venice Architecture Biennale, The New York Times, May 14, 2023.

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Awards 2

2024Royal Gold Medal
2024BBC 100 Women

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About this person

Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1964 · age 62
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22 languages

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