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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Wednesday 21 October, 2020 Lesley Lokko, the renowned Scottish-Ghanaian architecture academic, has announced plans of relocating from New York to Accra “to set up an independent school of architecture”.  She resigned from the Bernard and Anne Spitzer school of architecture at the City College of New York, primarily because she says she “lacked the tools to both process and deflect” how the “‘problem woman of colour’ scenario” manifests in America.  We welcome her back home to Accra, and respectfully ask her to ready herself for the multiple battles she will face. A few are listed below for our collectiveRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 29 April, 2020 Sodom and Gomorrah, a slum on the eastern banks of the Korle Lagoon, on Wednesday April 15 suffered yet another demolition. Mohammed Adjei Sowah, Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Chief Executive Officer told Paul Adom-Otchere’s Good Evening Ghana the next day: “I think that the dredging will not last long. It’s for a couple of weeks and then they can come back to normal”. He explained the strategy: “… We wanted to take advantage of the lockdown period to change the way people behave in the city and also the clear the city of the filth thatRead More →