Lesley Lokko

Lesley is an author, architect and academic. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of London and has spent the last twenty years alternating between being a professor and being a novelist. She is the founder and director of the African Futures Institute, a postgraduate school of architecture and public events platform in Accra, Ghana. She splits her time between Accra and Edinburgh, her two favourite cities in the world. Portrait: © Debra Hurford-Brown