There’s something about the training of an architect that’s particularly suited to our time: it’s about bringing disparate pieces of information toge… - Lesley Lokko

I’ve always thought of ‘race’ as a powerfully creative category of exploration and expression. I was fed up trying to find a way to talk about identity, race and Africa in architecture that wasn’t only about poverty and ‘informality,’ a word I loathe.

Guilt, Ameline discovered, was a terrible, unruly think, like toothache - dull nagging, persistent, never far from attention. Just when you got used to its rumbling, ruminating presence, it would lash out, stike you down, stio you dead in your tracks. The worst thing was, it was entirely unpredictable.

Change is the one thing that everybody hollers for and longs for, but when it actually arrives, most people don't want it. It's a complex thing.