Background
Lesley Lokko is the daughter of a Ghanaian surgeon and a Scottish mother.
Lesley Lokko is the daughter of a Ghanaian surgeon and a Scottish mother.
University College London.
She says: "I live almost simultaneously in Johannesburg, London, Accra and Edinburgh."
She grew up in Ghana and Scotland. Lokko began studying Hebrew and Arabic at Oxford, but left the program to go to the United States. Lokko holds a Doctor of Philosophy in architecture from the University of London.
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.