Pan-African Journal

Listen to the Sat. Feb. 23, 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 Nigerian presidential elections which took place today in Africa's most populous state; demonstrations have erupted again in Haiti during a mass funeral for victims of the government repression against the recent rebellion; Venezuela remains defiant amid continuing imperialist threats; and Mozambique is reporting another attack by Islamists in this Southern African state. In the second hour we commemorate the 151st birthday of African American scholar and activist Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois through an address delivered by him in1960 as well as a lecture by Shirley Graham Du Bois at UCLA in 1970. Finally we continue our tribute to Malcolm X during this annual celebration of African American History Month.

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 17, 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 refusal of the government in the Republic of Zimbabwe to consider a unity regime with the western-backed opposition groupings; the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro says he is still open to positive dialogue with the imperialist-supported opposition factions; Nigeria has postponed its national elections by one week; and Somalia and Kenya are locked in a dispute over maritime boundaries related to the drilling of offshore oil. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on African American History Month with examinations of Malcolm X and Huey P. Newton.

Listen to the Sat. Feb. 16, 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 call by the United States adminstration of President Donald Trump to remove the government of President Omer Hassan al-Bashir in Khartoum; the Federal Republic of Nigeria has postponed the national presidential and parliamentary elections for one week; the Democratic Republic of Congo new President Felix Tshisekedi has proposed a reduction in United Nations troops inside this vast central African state; Ethiopia has said that the Oromo Liberation Front rebel group will be disarming very soon. In the second hour we look back at the political legacy of Malcolm X through a question and answer session he conducted with a with an audience at the University of California at Berkely in November 1963. We later look at his evolving position after the departure with the Nation of Islam.

Listen to the Sat. Feb. 9, 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 escalating efforts by the United States to overthrow the legitimate government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will stand for another term in the North African state; Pentagon warplanes are continuing to pound the Horn of Africa state of Somalia under the guise of a "war on terrorism;" and former first lady of Mozambique, Graca Machel, has called for the cancellation of debt owed to international finance capital. In the second hour we examine the position of the Bolivarian Republic in their confrontation with Washington. We are honoring African American History Month through the work of W.E.B. Du Bois. Marzieh Hashami gave an interview on her ordeal with the US authorities earlier in the year.

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 3, 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 report to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe of events in that country; Venezuela is standing strong against escalating attempts to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro; Mexico says it will not participate in any United States backed efforts to interfere in the internal affairs of Venezuela; and the newly-elected President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is traveling to neighboring state to build relations in the region. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on the upcoming national elections in the Republic of South Africa. Finally Feb. is African American History Month. We will look back at the contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois who 151st birthday is coming up on Feb. 23.

Listen to the Sun. Jan. 27, 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 announcement that the South African government will nationalize the reserve bank; the Namibia state has expressed its displeasure with public criticism of its policies over social media; African Americans have denounced the lack of representation over CBS news elections reporting; and numerous media outlets in the United States are laying off journalists in order to address the decline in readership and revenue. In the second hour we continue our focus on the upcoming South African national elections through the preparations by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) for the upcoming poll. Finally we look back at the history of the Suez Canal crisis in Egypt during 1956.

Listen to the Sat. Jan. 26, 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 protests against the elections results in the West African state of Togo; a Central African Republican militia leader has been turned over to the dreaded International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands; United States government workers have returned to their jobs after a political dispute closed the operations of the state for 35 days; and demonstrations in the Republic of Sudan has prompted a leading opposition figure to call for the resignation of President Omer Hassan al-Bashir. In the second hour we look at the recently launched African National Congress election manifesto aimed at winning support for the upcoming elections. Finally we examine the history of German colonialism in Namibia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Listen to the Sun. Jan. 13, 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 call by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for the formation of a government of national unity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); demonstrations are continuing in the Republic of Sudan over economic issues gripping the oil-rich nation; Hamas has said that it will respond to any further Israeli attacks on its territory; and Syria claims it is not intimidated at all by recent airstrikes by the Israeli Air Force. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on the upcoming 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Listen to the Sat. Jan. 12, 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 our regular PANW report with dispatches on the statement made recently by Seif al-Gaddafi, the son of slain former leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying that elections should be held soon in this troubled North African state; Gabon has announced the appointment of a new prime minister in the aftermath of an attempted coup earlier in the week; the ruling Kabilist party in the Democratic Republic of Congo has won the majority of seats in the parliament; and Britain has been hit by a mass demonstration demanding an end to austerity and for immediate national elections. In the second and third hours we will pay tribute to the 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. looking back at addresses delivered between 1957 and 1965.

Listen to the Sun. Jan. 6, 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 delayed election results in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Cuba is commemorating the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution in Jan. 1959; the Syrian government is still battling the remnants of terrorists inside their country; and there are conflicting reports over the status of the doctors' strike  in the Southern African state of Zimbabwe. In the second hour we probe deeper into the character of the national elections in the DRC through an interview with President Joseph Kabila and other commentators. In the final hour we continue our focus on the history of the Cuban Revolution.