Lesley Lokko

Lesley Naa Norle Lokko, Yar asalin kasar Ghana ce, kuma mai fasaha, kuma marubuciya.Lesley Naa Norle Lokko , Pan African Writers' Association. Daga shekarar ta alif dubu biyu da goma sha’tara 2019 zuwa shekarar alif dubu biyu da ishirin 2020 ta kasance farfesa kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin Dean na Bernard da Anne Spitzer School of Architecture City College na New York, ban da matsayin koyarwa da kuma ayyuka daban-daban a Johannesburg, London, Accra da Edinburgh."About Lesley", Official website
A shekarar alif dubu biyu da goma sha’biyar 2015, Lokko ta kafa makarantar sakandare ta Graduate (GSA) a Jami'ar Johannesburg - makarantar farko da ta Afirka ce kawai da aka sadaukar domin karatun digiri na biyu. Ta koma Accra, Ghana a shekarar 2021, sannan ta kafa Cibiyar Nazarin Afirka ta Afirka, makarantar gaba da digiri na biyu a fannin gine-gine da kuma dandalin taron jama'a.

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
Lesley Lokko an haife ta a Dundee, 'yar wani likitan ƙasar Ghana kuma mahaifiyar Scottish, kuma ta girma a Ghana da Scotland."Lesley Lokko’s books are worth the weight", The Scotsman, 11 July 2012."Lesley Lokko talks to Danuta Kean about how to write a blockbuster". Orion Publishing Group. Lokacin da ta kai shekara sha’bakwai 17, ta shiga makarantar kwana ta sirri a Ingila.Mendes-Franco, Janine, "‘They can’t duck the question of decolonisation and transformation anymore’", Global Voices, 24 July 2018. Ta fara karatun Ibrananci da Larabci a Jami'ar Oxford, amma ta bar shirin don zuwa Amurka. Ta yi karatun digiri a Bartlett School of Architecture, Kwalejin Kwaleji ta London, tare da BSc (Arch) a shekarar alif dubu daya da dari tara da casa’in da biyu 1992, da kuma MArch a shekarar alif dubu daya da dari tara da casa’in da biyar 1995, kuma ta ci gaba da samun digirin digirgir a fannin gine-gine daga Jami'ar London a shekarar alif dubu biyu da bakwai 2007.Lesley Lokko profile at The Conversation.

 Aiki 
Yawancin rubuce-rubucen Lokko sun ƙunshi jigogi game da asalin al'adu da launin fata.Kean, Danuta (18 January 2008). "Lesley Lokko: 'Don't ask me about 'black culture', I don't know what it is'", The Independent. Tana yin laccoci a kai a kai a Afirka ta Kudu, kuma ta koyar a Burtaniya da Amurka. Tana kuma yin rubutu akai-akai don The Architectural Review.Lesley Lokko  at The Architectural Review. Ita ce mai ba da gudummawa ga New Daughters of Africa ta shekarar alif dubu biyu da goma sha’tara 2019 (Margaret Busby ta shirya)."new Daughters of Africa" at Myriad Editions. A shekara ta alif dubu biyu da hudu 2004, ta buga sabon littafinta, Sundowners, mai gabatar da shirye-shirye 40 na Guardian, tare da wasu litattafai goma sha daya. A cikin 2020, ta tashi daga Orion zuwa PanMacmillan tare da sabon labari Soul Sisters.

Lokko ta koyar da gine-gine a duk faɗin duniya. Kafin ta fice daga Amurka, ta kasance mataimakiyar farfesa a fannin gine-gine a Jami'ar Jihar Iowa daga shekarar alif dubu daya da dari tara da casa’in da bakwai 1997 zuwa shekarar alif dubu daya da dari tara da casa’in da takwas 1998 sannan kuma a Jami'ar Illinois a Chicago daga shekarar alif dubu daya da dari tara da casa’in da takwas 1998 zuwa 2000. A shekara ta 2000, ta zama Martin Luther King Farfesa na Farfesa a fannin gine-gine a Jami'ar Michigan. Daga nan sai ta koma Burtaniya kusan shekaru goma, tana koyar da gine-gine a Jami'ar Kingston, Jami'ar Arewacin London da kuma, a karshe, Jami'ar Westminster, inda ta kafa tsarin Master of Arts na yanzu a hanyar Architecture, Asalin Al'adu da Duniya baki daya. (MACIG).

An nada Lokko ta farko da ta ziyarci Malami a Afirka a Jami'ar Cape Town bayan ta dawo Afirka ta Kudu. Gaji da "hannun-Turai", Lokko, tare da haɗin gwiwar Jami'ar Johannesburg, sun kafa Makarantar Graduate School of Architecture (GSA) a cikin 2014/2015 kuma ya zama darektan Makaranta. GSA, wacce aka tsara bayan kammala karatun digiri na biyu a Jami'ar Harvard da Associationungiyar Architectural na London, ita ce kaɗai makarantar da ke cikin nahiyar da ta himmatu ga koyar da karatun digiri na biyu kuma na farko da ke ba da hanyar koyar da Unit System.

A shekarar 2015, Lokko ta zama shugabar sabuwar makarantar sakandare da kuma Mataimakin Farfesa a fannin gine-gine a Jami'ar Johannesburg.Lesley Lokko , 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. Ta kafa GSA ne a lokacin rikice-rikicen siyasa a Afirka ta Kudu kuma ta shaida zanga-zangar ɗaliban ɗalibai, tare da tayar da hankali game da asalin ƙasa a Afirka ta Kudu bayan mulkin mallaka.

A watan Yuni 2019 an nada ta a matsayin shugaban makarantar Bernard da Anne Spitzer School of Architecture a Kwalejin City na New York, ta ci gaba da kasancewa a wannan matsayi har zuwa 2020. A halin yanzu ita ce ta kafa kuma darekta na Cibiyar Futures ta Afirka a Accra, Ghana.

A cikin 2021, an nada ta a matsayin mai kula da 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture, wanda aka saita don buɗewa a cikin 2023.

 Kyaututtuka da karramawa 

 2021 Ada Louise Huxtable Prize don Gudunmawa ga Gine-gine 
 2020 RIBA Annie Spink Award 

 Zaɓaɓɓen ayyukan da aka buga 

 2000: White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture
 2004: Sundowners
 2005: Saffron Skies
 2008: Bitter Chocolate
 2009: Rich Girl, Poor GirlRich Girl, Poor Girl (Hardback) - Lesley Lokko , Orion Publishing Group.
 2010: One Secret SummerOne Secret Summer at Amazon.
 2011: A Private Affair
 2012: An Absolute Deception
 2014: Little White Lies
 2016: The Last Debutante
 2021: Soul Sisters

 A matsayin edita 

 2000: White Papers, Black Marks: Architecture, Race, Culture
 2017: FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture 
 2020: FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture Vol 2 

 Manazarta 

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