I’ve always thought of ‘race’ as a powerfully creative cate… - Lesley Lokko

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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.

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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Birth Name: Lesley Naa Norle Lokko

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