Pan-African Journal

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 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 declared committment of the Zimbabwe Commercial Farmer's Union to work with the ZANU-PF government in Harare; Sudan and South Sudan have announced that they will reopen border crossings between the two countries; there has been violence surrounding demonstrations against the government in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); and the drought in the East African state of Kenya is creating fodd deficit in sections of the country. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on African American History Month with audio files of speeches and interviews with Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X and Dr. Huey P. Newton.

Listen to the Feb. 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 PANW report with dispatches on the 150th birthday of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois who developed historical and social scientific studies in the United States; The Libyan national resistance movement has issued a statement to commemorate the tragic anniversary of the beginning of the imperialist-backed counter-revolution against the Jamahiriya some seven years ago; Tunisia has announced it is open for tourism once again after an horrendous attack at a beach resort some three years ago; Syria is still being attacked by western-backed groups which attacked the people in Damascus. In the second and third hours we listen to audio files recognizing African American History Month highlighting speeches of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X and Dr. Huey P. Newton.

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 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 will feature our regular PANW report with dispatches on the recent release of the film Black Panther which has opened to reviews; the South African government has a new leader in the person of Cyril Ramaphosa; also the Ethiopian government has a new leader as well when Hailemiriam Desalagne resigned. In the second and third hours we will focus on African American History Month with audio files on Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party.

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 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 recent visit to the People's Republic of China by the African Union Commission Chair; a review panel within the United States military has recomended the limiting of ground operations for Pentagon troops operating under the rubric of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM); there is still speculation over the future of South African President Jacob Zuma with an African National Congress National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting scheduled for Monday; and OXFAM International, the British-based relief agency, is embroiled in a controversy over allegation of abuse of women in Haiti after the earthquake some eight years ago.

Listen to the Sat. Feb. 10, 2018 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 ongoing war against United States backed forces in the Middle Eastern state of Yemen; the Israeli Defene Forces have bombed Syria in a failed attempt to hamper the war against counter-revolutionaries inside the country; Egypt has held talks with Republic of Sudan over the deteroriating bilateral relations; and South Sudan has rejected a U.S. arms embargo against the central African nation. In the second hour we will hear a rebroadcast of the Leid Stories program on the Progressive Radio Network featuring Abayomi Azikiwe and Detroit activist Elena Herrada. Finally we continue our annual commemoration of African American History Month featuring a debate between Malcolm X and James Baldwin in 1961.

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 4, 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 forced removals of Africans from the State of Israel; the drought is worsening in South Africa causing for the implementation of emergency measures; more bodies have been pulled from the Mediterranean Sea as the migrant crisis continues; and a Russian fighterjet has been gunned down over Syria by United States backed rebels. In the second hour we speak with Toronto bluesologist Norman Otis Richmond on the passing of former Temptation Dennis Edwards, among other issues. Finally we continue our commemoration of African American History Month with a special focus on Malcolm X. We listen to an interview by Eleanor Fischer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with Malcolm  in 1961. Later there is the 1961 recording of a debate between Malcolm X of the Nation of Islam with Evelyn Jones Richie of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Eustace Gay of the Philadelphia Tribune.

Listen to the Sat. Feb. 3, 2018 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This program will begin our monthlong commemoration of African American History. The holiday grew out of the work of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (1915), the Journal of Negro History (1916) and Negro History Week (1926). Some fifty years later in 1976, the federal government declared the month of February as Black History Month. In this episode we will focus on the contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz), two luminaries of the liberation struggle which emerged during the mid-20th century.

Listen to the Sun. Jan. 28, 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 response to Republic of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; there has been a flare-up in fighting in the southern regions of the North African state of Libya; Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has pledged to protect former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh who is residing in the country; and the presidents of Egypt and Sudan are holding talks on the sidelines of the 30th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to resolve differences among the two neighbors. In the second hour we continue our focus on Paul Robeson commemorating the 42 anniversary of his transition in 1976. Finally we again acknowledge the 89th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 50th year of his martyrdom.

Listen to the Sat. Jan. 27, 2018 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This program will feature our regular PANW report with dispatches on the Kenya government's views on the "swearing-in" of defeated presidential aspirant Raila Odinga who lost two elections against President Uhuru Kenyatta during 2017; the United States has escalated its drone attacks in Somalia under the guise of fighting terrorism; Syria has denounced the Turkish military operations in Afrin aganist the Kurdish Protection Forces and the Syrian Democratic Front; and foreign ministers from Sudan and Egypt have held discussions on the deteriorating diplomatic relations between the neighboring states. In the second hour we feature a tribute to Paul Robeson on the 42 anniversary of his transition in Philadelphia in January 1976. Finally we continue our focus on the 89th birthday celebrations for Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. during the 50th anniversary year of his assassination coming up on April 4.

Listen to the Sun. Jan. 21, 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 high levels of education and professionalism of African immigrants into the United States; the Togo government is saying it needs assistance from outside forces to end the current political stalemate; the Ghana government has criticized British Airways for the deplorable conditions of flights from Accra to London; and another official of the former administration in Ivory Coast has been convicted by the neo-colonial dominated regime. During the second and third hours we continue our review of 89th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We look at the Birmingham Campaign of 1963 and the speech delivered at the tenth anniversary of the SCLC in August 1967.