Pan-African Journal

Listen to the Sun. March 5, 2023 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The episode features our PANW report with dispatches on yet another train derailment in the state of Ohio just weeks after the initial disaster in East Palestine; South Africa is the leading country on the continent in its contributions of assistance to earthquake-hit Turkey and Syria; a Tunisian filmmaker has won the bi-annual FESPACO award in Burkina Faso; and Burundi is deploying peacekeeping troops to the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on International Women's History Month with a reexamination of the life, times and contributions of Mary Eliza Church Terrell. Also we review two rare archival audio files highlighting the contributions of Adelaide L. Hall, an African American woman artist and cultural worker during the 20th century who collaborated with luminaries such as Duke Ellington, Bill Robinson, Art Tatum, etc.

Listen to the Sat. March 4, 2023 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our PANW report with dispatches on the aftermath of the national elections in the Federal Republic of Nigeria where the two opposition parties are contesting the results; Tunisian trade unions have demonstrated against the rise in inflation in this North African state; Somaliland medical authorities are reporting that approximately 150 people have been killed in recent fighting over the future of the enclave; and the National Peoples Congress of the People's Republic of China has debunked the notion of the Beijing "debt traps" for the African continent. In the second and third hours we begin our commemoration of Women's History Month. We look back at the role of African women during the United States Civil War. Finally, we reexamine the early efforts to organize African American women through the club movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 26, 2023 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the national elections in the Federal Republic of Nigeria where voting continued well into a second day; the government of Belarus has announced that President Alexander Lukashenko will be visiting the People's Republic of China this coming week; there is growing opposition within the European Union member-states to the massive arms shipments to Ukraine aimed at bolstering the pro-United States forces; and China is escalating its defenses in light of the hostile maneuvers by the Pentagon near the South-China Sea. In the second and third hours we conclude our focus on African American History Month with segments reviewing the contributions of Lorraine Hansberry, Mike Hamlin and Walter Rodney.

Listen to the Sat. Feb. 25, 2023 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the national elections in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Africa's most populous state; there has been an explosion at a sports stadium in the West African state of Cameroon where 19 people were reportedly injured; Burkina Faso is hosting the Pan-African Film Festival (FESPACO) amid heightening insecurity inside the country; and the United States government is drastically cutting food supplemental benefits while inflation is taking its toll among millions of working and impoverished people. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on African American History Month. We will look back on the 50th anniversary of a lecture delivered by Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1973. Finally, we hear a lecture by scholar Michelle Alexander on the continued enslavement of African Americans utilizing the prison system inside the United States.

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 19, 2023 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our PANW report with dispatches on the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat from the 36th Ordinary African Union Summit taking place this weekend in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has laid out the agenda for the Peace and Security Council of the AU at its summit; the Federal Republic of Nigeria held the final rallies for presidential candidates seeking election this coming week; and the Tunisian government has deported a European Union official from this North African state. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on African American History Month with a reexamination of the life, times and contributions of Fannie Lou Hamer and Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik Shabazz).

Listen to the Sat. Feb. 18, 2023 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features a PANW report with dispatches on the opening of the African Union 36th Ordinary Summit being held this weekend in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; women in the Democratic Republic of Congo eastern city of Goma have held demonstrations demanding the withdrawal of M23 rebels from their city; the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has reportedly conducted another missile test inside the country ahead of Pentagon military exercises in the region; and the Federal Republic of Nigeria is slated to hold elections next week during a financial crisis inside the continent's most populous state. In the second hour we look closer at the ongoing AU Summit in Ethiopia. Later we continue our African American History Month programming with a focus on the life, times and contributions of archivist and bibliophile Arturo Schomburg. Finally, we listen to excerpts from a briefing delivered by the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the current AU Summit.

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 12, 2023 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the public statement made by the African Union (AU) encouraging the continuation of dialogue related to the Ethiopian peace accord signed in Pretoria and Nairobi during late 2022; the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has postponed a demonstration after meeting with Prime Abiy Ahmed; reports from Niger say that a number of soldiers have been killed by rebel fighters inside this West African state; and the governments of the Republic of Sudan and the Russian Federation have held talks on plans for a joint Red Sea development project. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on African American History Month. We look back on the life, times and contributions of Hallie Quinn Brown (1850-1949), an African American Women's historian, organizer and public speaker. Finally, we review the role of Langston Hughes (1901-1967) in African American history, social sciences and culture as a poet, playwright, composer and public intellectual.

Listen to the Sat. Feb. 11, 2023 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the scheduled national elections in the Federal Republic of Nigeria amid security and economic concerns; Malawi has reported 1,200 deaths resulting from a cholera outbreak; the Economic Community of West African States has received appeals from the military regimes in Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea seeking readmission to the regional body; and the President of the Republic of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has delivered the annual State of the Nation Address in Cape Town. In the second hour we continue our African American History Month programming with a reexamination of the lives, times and contributions of Dr. Anna Julia Cooper and Ms. Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Finally, we listen to excerpts from the SONA speech given by President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa.

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 5, 2023 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the response of the People's Republic of China to the downing of a weather balloon which flew off course in the United States; the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has held a meeting to facilitate the further implementation of the Pretoria Peace Deal; soldiers serving in the Somalian peacekeeping forces have not been paid from funds allocated by the European Union (EU); and there has been a meeting of the East Africa Community on the current security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In the second and third hours we continue our commemoration of African American History Month. We listen to an interview with scholar Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) on the origins of Pan-Africanism. We then review an interview with Dr. Herbert Aptheker, the literary executor of Dr. DuBois. Finally, we listen to a rare archival lecture by Shirley Graham Du Bois delivered at UCLA in 1970.

Listen to the Sat. Feb. 4, 2023 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our PANW report with dispatches on the Federal Aviation Administration downing of a Chinese weather balloon which flew off course into the United States; Pope Francis in a visit to the Republic of South Sudan proclaimed that the future of the world's most recent state lies with the role of women; regional governments in East and Central Africa want an immediate ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); and several Kenyan police officers have been found guilty in the assassination of a human rights lawyer. In the second hour we begin our monthlong commemoration of African American History Month. We reexamine the intellectual contributions of Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop on the African Origins of World Civilizations. Later we review the seminal work of Dr. Chancellor Williams on his study of the Destruction of Black Civilization. Finally, we listen to a rare archived interview with African American resistance historian Dr. Herbert Aptheker.