Africa's unique context, which is both richly challenging a… - Lesley Lokko

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Africa's unique context, which is both richly challenging and richly creative, means it's a powerful place from which to examine the issues that will dominate the next century – climate change, societal change, demographic change, new forms of governance, explosive urbanity.

Lesley Lokko

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Lesley Naa Norle Lokko OBE (1964 in Dundee, Scotland) is a Ghanaian-Scottish architect, academic, and novelist.

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The dominant voice has historically been a singular, exclusive voice, whose reach and power ignores huge swathes of humanity — financially, creatively, conceptually — as though we have been listening and speaking in one tongue only.

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