African Voices Platform is a UK-based public-interest media and cultural storytelling organisation working across radio, digital publishing, television and live public dialogue.
We document African and diaspora heritage, platform artists, cultural work and community knowledge, and create space for communities to speak on their own terms. Through our DAB-licensed radio station, digital platforms and broadcast collaborations, we produce work that strengthens representation, preserves community knowledge and connects local experience with national and international conversations.
How The Work Operates
Heritage, Arts and Culture
We document cultural work, artistic practice, community memory and African intellectual traditions, helping significant stories travel beyond the room in which they first happen.
Community Voice and Civic Dialogue
We work with communities, organisers, public bodies and civic partners to host conversations that make lived experience, local knowledge and public questions visible.
Partnerships and Commissions
We collaborate with theatres, festivals, cultural organisations, universities, civic institutions and community-led projects that need trusted media, hosting, documentation or narrative strategy.
How the work operates
Broadcasting
African Voices Platform operates a DAB-licensed radio station serving South Yorkshire and beyond, creating space for African and diaspora voices within the UK’s broadcast landscape. Through live programming, interviews and curated shows, it contributes to a more representative public discourse.
Digital and Editorial
Across its digital platforms, African Voices Platform produces written, audio and visual content that documents, reflects and extends conversations within African and diaspora communities.
Partnerships and Public Dialogue
African Voices Platform works with cultural institutions, civic organisations and community partners to convene conversations, document work and support more inclusive forms of storytelling. This includes collaborations across arts, culture and public life, both within Sheffield and nationally.
African Voices Platform is part of the ongoing work of building a more representative media system.
Selected work and collaborations
Institutional and Civic Engagement
African Voices Platform operates within civic, academic and policy-facing spaces to document and extend public conversations.
Supporting the livestream and documentation of President Hakainde Hichilema’s address at the University of Oxford, in partnership with the Zambia Oxford and Cambridge Alumni Network, contributing to the circulation of a national moment within diaspora and international audiences.
The platform has also served as a media partner for the Africa Leadership Summit London 2025, contributing to the documentation and distribution of high-level conversations on African leadership and governance, including convenings featuring figures such as former Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete.
Cultural and Intellectual Collaborations
African Voices Platform works with theatres, arts organisations and cultural producers to frame, document and extend the life of creative and intellectual work.
This work has seen collaborations with Utopia Theatre, supporting coverage and public dialogue around productions such as Crown of Blood, and hosting and curating a public symposium with Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in partnership with the Racial Justice Network, contributing to critical discourse on language, decolonisation and African intellectual traditions.
Broadcast and Public Conversations
Through its DAB-licensed radio station and digital platforms, African Voices Platform hosts in-depth conversations with artists, practitioners, policymakers and community leaders.
These conversations foreground perspectives that are often underrepresented or misrepresented within mainstream media, contributing to a more inclusive and representative public discourse.
Civic and Community Work
The platform contributes to civic and community initiatives that centre storytelling as a form of participation and engagement.
This includes youth-focused programmes, workshops and partnerships that support emerging voices and build pathways into media, storytelling and public life.