Lesley Lokko
Lesley Naa Norle Lokko is a Ghanaian-Scottish architect, academic, and novelist. She says: "I live almost simultaneously in Johannesburg, London, Accra and Edinburgh."Early life and education
Lesley Lokko was born in Dundee, the daughter of a Ghanaian surgeon and a Scottish Jewish mother, and grew up in Ghana and Scotland. At the age of 17 she went to a private boarding school in England. She began studying Hebrew and Arabic at Oxford University, but left the programme to go to the United States. She graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, with a BSc in 1992, and an March in 1995, and went on to earn a PhD in Architecture from the University of London in 2007.Career
Much of Lokko's writing contains themes about cultural and racial identity. She regularly lectures in South Africa, and has also taught in the United Kingdom and the United States. She also writes regularly for The Architectural Review. In 2015 she became Head of the newly established Graduate School and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg. In June 2019 she was named as dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York.Selected published works
