Pan-African Journal

Listen to the Sun. Sept. 8, 2019 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program will focus on the life, times and contributions of Republic of Zimbabwe Founding President Robert G. Mugabe who made his transition on Sept. 6. We will look back at three addresses delivered by President Mugabe. One at the African Union (AU) in Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa during June 2015 while he served as Chair of this continental body and two other speeches in New York City before the United Nations General Assembly in 2016-2017 where he discussed the problems of Africa and the world. Mugabe spoke strongly against the ongoing sanctions leveled against the Southern African state by the western imperialist states. He emphasized the imperatives of Pan-Africanism and the creation of a just world order benefiting the masses of people on the continent and internationally.

Listen to the Sat. Sept. 7, 2019 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program will feature a tribute to the Republic of Zimbabwe Founding President Robert G. Mugabe who joined the ancestors recently. Mugabe became the leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union, Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) during the 1970s and provided political leadership to the National Liberation Movement turned political party through the final phase of the armed struggle against British settler-colonialism and to independence. The ZANU-PF government not only won political independence for the former Rhodesia it enacted revolutionary land reform beginning in 2000, transfering millions of acres of stolen farm land to the African majority population. Since the announcement of his passing, the Zimbabwe government has declared Mugabe a National Hero. Condolences have poured into Harare from across Africa and around the world. We will listen to some of the important addresses by Comrade President Mugabe during his tenure as state leader as well as Chairperson of the African Union in 2016.

Listen to the Sat. Aug. 31, 2019 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the ongoing political debate in the Republic of Sudan between the various tendencies over the future of the state; Rwanda has proposed the utilization of electrical technology to power motorcycles as opposed to fuel; Somalia National Army soldiers have received training from British military instructors amid the continuing conflict inside this Horn of Africa nation; and Nigeria has announced the arrest of several individuals connected with financial crimes. In the second and third hours we conclude our monthlong focus on Black August illustrating the legacy of struggle by African people against exploitation and oppression. In these segments we look back at the First Pan-African Cultural Festival held in Algiers during July 1969. The final segment examines the character of urban rebellion during the 1960s.

Listen to the Sun. Aug. 25, 2019 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 regular PANW report with dispatches on the Republic of Zimbabwe objecting to the foreign interference by imperialist states in the internal affairs of the Southern African state; an editorial in the British Morning Star newspaper has paid tribute to African Caribbean revolutionary Claudia Jones in honor of her work in creating the annual Carnival in London; the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran has visited France during the G7 Summit over the weekend; and the Amazon rainforests are still burning in the South American state of Brazil. In the second and third hours we continue our monthlong commemoration of Black August with segments reviewing the contributions of Huey P. Newton and Albert Woodfox.

Listen to the Sat. Aug. 24, 2019 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the efforts by lawyers of ousted Republic of Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to be released from detention on bail; opposition parties in the Horn of Africa state of Ethiopia have objected to the character of the existing election laws; the southern Somalia province of Jubaland remains tense as the largest city of Kismayo has been blocked off pending the elections; and Republic of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa is calling for innovative methods in the agricultural sector. In the second and third hours we continue our monthlong focus on Black August. We look back on the 50th anniversary of the National Conference for a United Front Against Fascism held from July 18-20, 1969 in Oakland.

Listen to the Sun. Aug. 11, 2019 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azkiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on two statements of solidarity issued by the South African Communist Party (SACP) related to the role of United States towards the Republic of Cuba and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; Angola and Kenya are discussing the potential for enhancing their economic relations; a number of African leaders have witnessed the signing of a peace agreement between the ruling FRELIMO party in Mozambique and its longtime adversaries of RENAMO; finally an editorial published in the Zimbabwe Sunday Mail says that the Chimurenga spirit is alive and well inside this Southern African state. In the second and third hours we begin a monthlong focus on Black August, a commemoration of the resistance history of African people from slavery and colonialism to settler-colonialism, imperialism and neo-colonialism. We look back at the Haitian Revolution from 1791-1804 through the lens of Caribbean-born historian CLR James. Later we reexamine the role of British imperialism in the spread of slavery and colonialism.

Listen to the Sun. July 28, 2019 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the continuing threat of United States military intervention in the South American state of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; the United Nations envoy to Somalia has welcomed the deployment of more Ugandan troops to Somalia where a bomb attack recently killed the mayor of the capital of Mogadishu along with five others; Muslims from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been banned from attending the pilgrimage to Mecca for Hajj due to the Ebola Virus Disease pandemic; and South African miners impacted by a deadly work-related disease have been awarded compensation for their claims. In the second and third hours we conclude our monthlong focus on the Cuban Revolution. We will look back at the Bay of Pigs invasion coordinated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in April 1961 and its defeat by the Cuban revolutionary government headed by Premier Fidel Castro. Finally we review the contributions of Che Guevera and his impact on the western political imagination.

Listen to the Sat. July 20, 2019 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the ongoing discussions between opposition forces and the military in the Republic of Sudan surrounding important issues related to political transformation; there has been renewed unrest in Ethiopia this time taking place in the southern province of Sidama; former South African President Jacob Zuma has testified before the Zondo Commission investigating state capture; and Iran has seized a British tanker in the Straits of Hormuz. In the second hour we continue our focus on Cuba month with an examination into the early history of the revolution. Finally we listen to some of the testimony by former South African President Jacob Zuma before the Zondo Commission earlier in the week.

Listen to the Sat. July 13, 2019 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the failure of the Transitional Military Council (TMC) and the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) of the Republic of Sudan to sign a final agreement in the accord reached one week before amid claims  of an attempted coup by dissident military officers opposed to the reforms; France has witnessed another demonstration by the Black Vests composed of African migrants demanding legal status; France has announced it is establishing a military base in the West African state of Mali, a former colony; and there was a bomb attack on a funeral in the Libyan city of Benghazi. In the second and third hours we honor July as Cuba Month. The two segments will present a rare archival interview with Che Guevara on Face the Nation in Dec. 1964. Finally we look back at the impact of the Cuban Revolution some 50 years ago.

Listen to the Sun. July 7, 2019 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the African Union (AU) Summit taking place in the West African state of Niger where Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa and First Lady Auxillia are both attending; the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is holding talks with opposition forces in the Caribbean nation of Barbados; Iran has announced that it will no longer abide by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) related to its nuclear program; and a 4,000 year old pyramid in Egypt has been opened for viewing by the public in recent days. In the second and third hours we look at the character of United States foreign policy towards Venezuela and Iran.