The Platform #14: Rethinking Memory and Culture in a Globalised Landscape

African and diaspora stories are always on the move: crossing borders, shaping industries, finding new audiences. So how do we hold onto what they mean? What gets lost when culture travels, and what only survives because someone chose to keep the record?

This June, The Moveee steps off the virtual world for the first time. We’re hosting the debut physical edition of The Platform in London, set inside the Ethiopian Embassy: a venue with its own diplomatic and historical weight. The evening opens the 2026 Bradford African Festival of Arts (BAFA) London Reception.

Under the theme “Rethinking Memory and Culture in a Globalised Landscape,” the panel brings together a writer, a visual artist, and a cultural curator to sit with a question that won’t go away: how does the Africa diaspora build archives that actually belong to us? In a moment defined by fast feeds and shifting borders, we’re looking at the work being done in poetic archives, visual histories, and digital storytelling. The places where memory is being shaped on our own terms.

BAFA itself arrives in the UK this August with a full celebration of African creativity, community, and heritage. This London reception is the prelude: the room where the thinking happens before the festival breaks open.

Join us for an evening of real conversation, considered company, and the kind of creative community that holds memory steady in a world that keeps moving.