Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Kemi Lawson. Kemi is a co-founder and creative director of The Cornrow, an Afrocentric home and lifestyle store which has featured in Elle Decoration, The Guardian, Telegraph, Red Magazine and Stylist. She is a collector of African and African diaspora stories and material treasures, working as a curator for the Museum of the Home on a Black Home installation. She has also collaborated with The National Trust and the Arts Fund on content regarding Black Homes, and has written articles on Afrocentric interior design for a range of magazines. Kemi, who is Black British with Jamaican and Nigerian heritage, traced her Caribbean ancestry to 1780, when her six times great grandmother Minerva survived the Middle Passage and arrived in Jamaica. Her home has been featured in media including the Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, 25 Beautiful Homes, House Beautiful and The Sunday Times Style section. 

We discuss Kemi's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a fabulous guest list; British activist Olive Morris, Nigerian political activist Funmilayo Ransome Kuti, and Bess, Kemi's Jamaican three times great grandmother. Set in her dream home somewhere in Africa, against a soundtrack of Bob Marley, Brown Sugar and Tracy Chapman, they start with her sister Lara’s everything salad, followed by the tasting menu from Ikoyi Restaurant in London, and finishing with her mum's rice pudding. We discuss how her feminism intersects with her work in interior design, and the power of the home in feminist activism.

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