Lesley Lokko
Lesley Lokko | |
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| Born | Lesley Naa Norle Lokko Dundee, Scotland |
| Occupation | Architect, academic, novelist |
| Nationality | Ghanaian-Scottish |
| Alma mater | University College London[1] |
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Lesley Naa Norle Lokko is a Ghanaian-Scottish architect, academic, and novelist.[1] She says: "I live almost simultaneously in Johannesburg, London, Accra and Edinburgh."[2]
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.[3][4] At the age of 17 she went to a private boarding school in England.[5] She began studying Hebrew and Arabic at Oxford University, but left the programme to go to the United States.[4] She graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, with a BSc(Arch) in 1992, and an March in 1995, and went on to earn a PhD in Architecture from the University of London in 2007.[6]
Career
Much of Lokko's writing contains themes about cultural and racial identity.[7] She regularly lectures in South Africa,[4] and has also taught in the United Kingdom and the United States.[1] She also writes regularly for The Architectural Review.[8] In 2015 she became Head of the newly established Graduate School and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg.[9][10][11] In June 2019 she was named as dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York.[11]
Selected published works
- 2000: White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture[1]
- 2004: Sundowners[1]
- 2005: Saffron Skies[1]
- 2008: Bitter Chocolate[1]
- 2009: Rich Girl, Poor Girl[12]
- 2010: One Secret Summer[13]
- 2011: A Private Affair[1]
- 2012: An Absolute Deception[1]
- 2014: Little White Lies[1]
As editor
- 2000: White Papers, Black Marks: Architecture, Race, Culture[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Lesley Naa Norle Lokko Archived 23 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Pan African Writers' Association.
- ^ "About Lesley", Official website
- ^ "Lesley Lokko’s books are worth the weight", The Scotsman, 11 July 2012.
- ^ a b c "Lesley Lokko talks to Danuta Kean about how to write a blockbuster". Orion Publishing Group.
- ^ Mendes-Franco, Janine, "‘They can’t duck the question of decolonisation and transformation anymore’", Global Voices, 24 July 2018.
- ^ a b Lesley Lokko profile at The Conversation.
- ^ Kean, Danuta (18 January 2008). "Lesley Lokko: 'Don't ask me about 'black culture', I don't know what it is'", The Independent.
- ^ Lesley Lokko at The Architectural Review.
- ^ Lesley Lokko Archived 20 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Academic biography.
- ^ "UJ’s Head of the Graduate School of Architecture, Prof Lesley Lokko, provides mentorship on Made in SA TV Show", University of Johannesburg, 2 August 2018.
- ^ a b Russell, James S. (11 June 2019). "Lesley Lokko, Global Architect and Novelist, Appointed Architecture Dean at City College of New York". Architectural Record. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
- ^ Rich Girl, Poor Girl (Hardback) - Lesley Lokko Archived 22 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Orion Publishing Group.
- ^ One Secret Summer at Amazon.
External links
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- Living people
- Alumni of University College London
- Ghanaian novelists
- Ghanaian women novelists
- 21st-century Scottish novelists
- Writers from Dundee
- Scottish people of Ghanaian descent
- Ghanaian people of Scottish descent
- Scottish women novelists
- 21st-century Ghanaian women writers
- 21st-century Ghanaian writers
- 21st-century Scottish women writers
- 21st-century Scottish writers
- Ghanaian women academics
- University of Johannesburg academics
- Scottish architects
- Scottish women academics
- British women architects
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Scottish people of Jewish descent
- African people of Jewish descent