Pan-African Journal

Listen to the Sun. Dec. 2, 2018 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. In the second and third hours we focus on the 100th anniversary commemorations of the birth of former South African President Nelson Mandela. We pay tribute to the life, legacy and contributions of former Cuban President Fidel Castro and his role in the liberation of Southern Africa.

Listen to the Sat. Dec. 1, 2018 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. In the second and third hour we look back at the second anniversary of the transitions of former Republic of Cuba President and Commandante Fidel Castro Ruz. We review the life, times and contributions of Fidel along with his overall impact on the world socialist movement and the struggle for national liberation.

Listen to the Sun. Nov. 25, 2018 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 investment plans in the Republic of Zimbabwe; South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed a minimum wage bill where 6 million people will benefit; Republic of Congo has an anti-gender violence program which is threatened by the economic crisis impacting the country; and there have been attacks on the Somalian military by al-Shabaab fighters in recent days. In the second hour we continue our focus on the 55th anniversary of the assassination of former United States President John F. Kennedy through an interview from 1967 following the notion that his alleged assassin was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Finally we conclude the program with a report on the life, times and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in light of the upcoming 90th anniversary of his birth.

Listen to the Sat. Nov. 24, 2018 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 Republic of South Africa is poised to invest over one billion dollars into to the oil industry in the Republic of South Sudan; France has been hit by demonstrations over the rise in fuel prices and other commodities; the Demcratic Republic of Congo (DRC) according to the United States is a possible target for a terrorist attack; and a runoff Republican candidate for Senator  in Mississippi has been exposed for attending an all-white segregationist academy during the 1970s. In the second hour we continue our focus on the 55th anniversary of the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy and the conspiracy surrounding his murder on Nov. 22, 1963. We will present a rare arhived audio file of an interview with Sylvia Meagher aired in 1967 over a Los Angeles radio station.

Listen to the Fri. Nov. 23, 2018 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 recently-released United States government Climate Change Report; activists in Tunisia are planning to protest the upcoming visit of Saudi Arabian Prince Salmon; Iran and Italy have discussed the character of American foreign policy in the region; and Syrian military forces are continuing their operations against western-backed terrorist groups. In the second hour we continue our reexamination of the assassination of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy some 55 years ago in Dallas. Finally we rebroadcast an interview with host Abayomi Azikiwe aired over the Progressive Radio Network (prn.fm) on the political situations in both Detroit and Zimbabwe during late 2017. Finally we look at the role of the Counter-intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) in efforts aimed at destabilizing the Civil Rights Movement through an investigation into the informant-photographer Ernest Withers in Memphis.

Listen to the Thurs. Nov. 22, 2018 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 announced reduction in salaries for top governmental officials in the Republic of Zimbabwe; a miners strike in South Africa has resulted in the death of one person; Angolan former President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos has denied he left the state coffers without funds; and one thousand African women have gathered for a conference in the Republic of South Africa to discuss their role in the fourth industrial revolution. In the second hour we review the conspiracy surrounding the assassination of former United States President John F. Kennedy in 1963 some 55 years ago. Finally we rebroadcast an interview with host Abayomi Azikiwe on the Detroit socio-economic and political crisis.

Listen to the Sun. Nov. 18, 2018 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 legacy of Pan-Africanism as a vanguard movement; a group of migrants have refused to leave a vessel off the coast of Libya due to the horrendous conditions in the refugee camps; Egypt and Ethiopia are engaged in discussions about the future usage of the Nile; and the fires in California has left many dead and missing while a norovirus is sickening people in the internally displaced persons camps in the state. In the second hour we begin a re-examination of the conspiracy surrounding the assassination of former United States President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 on the 55th anniversary of the incident. This is done through an interview with Mark Lane some five years ago.

Listen to the Sat. Nov. 17, 2018 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 recent deaths of internally displaced persons in the Central African Republic (CAR) amid the extradition of a militia leader to the Netherlands for trial before the controversial International Criminal Court (ICC); AFRICOM has announced that it will reduce its troop presence on the continent by 10 percent over the next few years; Madagascar will witness a runoff election between two former presidents on Dec. 19; and a funeral has been held for peacekeepers slain in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In the second hour we focus on the character of internal political conflict in Nigeria and other geo-political regions over the last four years. Finally we review the presence of Pentagon troops in Africa through a rebroadcast of an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe on AFRICOM aired on a Milwaukee radio program one year ago this month.

Listen to the Sun. Nov. 11, 2018 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 ongoing struggle for the governor's race in the state of Georgia amid allegations of voter suppression; the bread supply is beginning to normalize in the Southern African state of Zimbabwe; hundreds of villagers have fled from an area attacked by the Boko Haram grouping in northern Nigeria; and the New York Times revealed a plot to assassinate the leading military official in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the second and third hours we present a rare archival interview with legendary African American novelist, essayist and playwright James Baldwin from 1968. Finally we address the question of gun control and African American liberation through the lens of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.

Listen to the Sat. Nov. 10, 2018 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 problems associated with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC); there have been widespread claims of voter suppression in the states of Georgia and Florida involving the races for governor and other offices; another bomb attack occured in the capital of Somalia which has resulted in many casualties; results are in from the national elections in Madagascar. In the second hour we look at the issue of voter suppression in Georgia where Stacey Abrams has refused to concede defeat to former Secretary of State Brian Kemp. Also this year represents the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco State College strike where African Americans and other nationally oppressed students, workers and faculty shutdown the campus for several months. Finally we look back at the 50th anniversary of the electoral alliance between the Black Panther Party and the Peace & Freedom Party.