TROPIC ANTICS, a lecture by Prof. Lesley Lokko, centres on the way in which Africa (and the Caribbean) is always constructed ‘in opposition’ to the North, the West, the Civilized and the Developed Worlds, we will look at two cities in particular – Accra, Ghana and Johannesburg, South Africa, and examine the tropes of ‘otherness’, ‘development’, ‘chaos’ and ‘disorder’ whilst looking for ways in which local resilience and inventiveness are found in the urban realm.

LESLEY LOKKO is an architect, academic and the author of ten best-selling novels. She is currently Head of School at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She completed her architectural training at the Bartlett School of Architecture, in 1994, and went on to complete her PhD from the University of London in 2007. She has taught at schools of architecture in the US, the UK and South Africa. She is the editor of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and has been an on-going contributor to discourses around identity, race, African urbanism and the speculative nature of African architectural space and practice for nearly thirty years. She is a regular juror at international competitions and symposia, and is a long-term contributor to BBC World. In 2004, she made the successful transition from academic to novelist with the publication of her first novel, Sundowners (Orion 2004), a UK-Guardian top forty best-seller, and has since then followed with nine further best-sellers, which have been translated into fifteen languages. https://lesleylokko.com/

Lesley’s visit is presented by architect Mark Raymond in association with the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg; the CCAU; and the Trinidad & Tobago Institute of Architects. Thanks to our sponsors Berger, Kee-Chanona Ltd, Neville Pouchet, Home Solutions, and UNICOM.

Friday 1 June, 2018 | 6 pm

at GRUNDLOS KOLLEKTIV ( 11 Cipriani Boulevard, P.O.S.)

ADMISSION IS FREE BUT RSVP IS REQUIRED.

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