“Our food traditions carry centuries of knowledge — scientific, cultural, and spiritual. Preserving them is an act of cultural sovereignty.”
Olukemi (Kemi) Atijosan, MBA, MIH, FRSA is a Yoruba woman from Nigeria whose deep, embodied knowledge of food, community and survival has driven one of London's most distinctive careers in food justice.
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Olukemi (Kemi) Atijosan, MBA, MIH, FRSA is a Yoruba woman from Nigeria whose deep, embodied knowledge of food, community and survival has driven one of London's most distinctive careers in food justice.
She is the multi-award-winning Founder and Managing Director of Eagle Solutions Services Limited and, as a systems thinker, has spent five decades refusing the separation of food from culture, politics and care.
She pioneered London's first multicultural Meals-on-Wheels services, helped shape the national School Food Plan and advised the Mayor of London on food strategy as a member of the London Food Board.
Internationally, in 2018, she established a charity providing start-up loans to rural women in her home community in Nigeria, then two years later in the UK, she co-founded the London-based, African & Caribbean Heritage Food Network, advocating for Black food sovereignty and raising standards of Afrocentric foods grown, imported, and sold in the UK.
Her trailblazing work continues as a member of the Black Food Fund, a community-led funding committee which is distributing funds to Black food entrepreneurs and innovators based in Lambeth and Southwark.
Kemi is a connector of worlds that policy too often keeps apart, which is precisely her power.
“Our food traditions carry centuries of knowledge — scientific, cultural, and spiritual. Preserving them is an act of cultural sovereignty.”
Heritage Lottery Fund Conference
Keynote Speaker
Exploring heritage, community memory, and cultural preservation
Africa Writes Festival
Panel Moderator
Leading conversations on African and diasporic food narratives
UCL Food Studies Symposium
Guest Lecturer
Contributing to academic discourse on food systems and identity
City St George’s Food Policy Symposium
Contributor / Speaker
Contributing to critical conversations on food policy, systems transformation, and cultural inclusion
London Food Board
Member & Public Advocate
Supporting wider dialogue on food strategy, equity, and community-centred policy
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