Pan-African Journal

Listen to the Jan. 20, 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 interview given to the Financial Times newspaper by Republic of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa; the government of Botswana has announced that the number of people living in poverty has been reduced; African nations are attending the Davos Summit to make their voices heard; and the United States government is shutdown due to the failure of the two ruling class parties to reach an agreement on a national budget. In the second and third hours we will continue our focus on the 89th birthday of Civil Rights and Peace leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We review an address he delivered at Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, just one year prior to his assassination. Finally we hear a report on the visit of Dr. King to Santa Rita Prison on Jan. 14, 1968 to visit political prisoners incarcerated for their opposition to the Vietnam War.

Listen to the Sat. Jan. 13, 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 developments throughout the continent and the world. This week we look at the condemnations from the African Union and other international entities related to the racist remarks uttered by United States President Donald Trump denigrating the continent and the people of Haiti; the Southern African state of Zimbabwe is on the verge of opening up the sale of diamonds on the global market once again; people in the North African state of Tunisia are continuing their protest demonstrations against the economic crisis inside the country; and there has been another mutiny of soldiers in the West African nation of Ivory Coast. In the second and third hours we commemorate the 89th birthday of the martyred Civil Rights, social justice and peace leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We examine his convergence of the struggle against the U.S. in Vietnam and the necessity of eliminating poverty as prerequisites to the realization of a genuinely democratic society.

Listen to the Jan. 1, 2018 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program looks back at some of the events of 2017 and their historical implications. Also we will discuss the preparations for the upcoming Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebrated on his birthday on Jan. 15. We will hear another installment of the Massey Lectures delivered over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) fifty years ago in late 1967. In Detroit the MLK Committee is making plans for its 15th Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Rally & March held downtown. The opening rally is held at Central United Methodist Church located at Woodward Avenue and East Adams beginning at Noon. Later at 1:30pm the march begins through downtown focusing on the struggle to halt foreclosures and evictions; mass incarceration of African American people; against massive water shut-offs and the negative role of the banks in ethnic cleansing along with tax captures. This day of events concludes at St. John's Episcopal Church on Woodward at I-75 with a cultural program and community meal.

Listen to the Sun. Dec. 31, 2017 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 New Year's message delivered by Republic of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa who pledged jobs and prosperity for 2018; President Jacob Zuma of the Republic of South Africa has spoke to the nation with his New Year's message advocating radical economic transformation for the coming year; opposition protesters clashed with police in the Democratic Republic of Congo demanding the resignation of President Joseph Kabila; and Africa is bracing for retaliation after the vote against the United States in the United Nations General Assembly opposing the move of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In the second hour we listen to the acceptance speech of African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa at the conclusion of the National Elective Conference held in South Africa earlier this month. Finally we hear from the ANC Women's League leadership in the aftermath of the NEC.

Listen to the Sun. Dec. 24, 2017 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 African National Congress of South Africa's assessment related to gender equality inside the country; the state-owned Zimbabwe Herald has praised the role of outgoing Commander of the Defense Forces Constantino Chiwenga; Kenyan youth have been negatively impacted by the protracted political struggles over the last year according to a study; and the Zambian government has condemned the forced closure of a private radio station. In the second hour we look back at the 50th anniversary of the historic Massey Lectures delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Finally we review perhaps the most undercovered story again in 2017 and that is the United States coordinated war against the Middle Eastern state of Yemen. We rebroadcast a Global Research News Hour program from 2015 during the early months of the war which contains an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe.

Listen to the Sat. Dec. 23, 2017 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-held African National Congress National Elective Conference last week in the Republic of South Africa; Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has emphasized the need for economic development under his administration; reconciliation talks are slated to begin soon in the East African state of Kenya where President Uhuru Kenyatta was inaugurated for a second term earlier this month; and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is preparing to implement its mandates from the latest regional summit. In the second and third hours we continue our reports from the ANC National Elective Conference held last weekend. We hear an interview with ANC Women's League President Bathabile Dlamini as well as other proceedings of the conference.

Listen to the Pan-African Journal: Special 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 second day of the 54th African National Congress National Elective Conference being held at NASREC in Johannesburg, South Africa; Zimbabwe's ruling party ZANU-PF is assessing the recently-held Extraordinary Congress which took place last week; Egypt is continuing with its development of the natural gas industry in this North African state; and yet another report is surfacing in the United States corporate media related to the death of an African American Green Beret in the West African state of Niger. In the second and third hours we continue our coverage of the 54th ANC NEC featuring analysis of the event along with an interview with the ANC Women's League President Bathabile Dlamini. We listen as well to a portion of the nominations process chaired by ANC speaker of the parliament Baleka Mbete..

Listen to the Sat. Dec. 16, 2017 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 African National Congress National Elective Conference where a new leadership of the Republic of South Africa's ruling party will be selected; another bombing has been carried out against a police academy in the Horn of Africa state of Somalia; opposition parties and coalitions in the West African state of Togo has called for regional assistance in resolving a political standoff with the government of President Faure Gnassingbe; and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will soon pay a state visit to the Republic of Sudan. In the second hour we will look at the Extraordinary Congress of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front Party (ZANU-PF). Finally we review some features of the African National Congress 54th National Elective Conference which began on today at the University of Johannesburg.

Listen to the Sun. Dec. 10, 2017 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 Tanzanian United Nations peacekeepers who were recently killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); the oil industry in Angola is currently undergoing a change of leadership; President Joseph Kabila of the DRC wants to label the rebel groups involved in violent attacks in various parts of the country as terrorists; and the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) has elected a new politburo for the ruling party. In the second hour we will turn our attention to the 50th anniversary of the Massey Lectures delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Finally we listen to the address by Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas before the United Nations General Assembly in New York City during September 2017.

Listen to the Sat. Dec. 9, 2017 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 demonstrations in Palestine and around the world condemning the declaration of United States President Donald Trump moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; bombing attacks by the Gulf Cooperation Council against the Middle Eastern state of Yemen are continuing in the aftermath of the assassination of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh; the ruling ZANU-PF party in Zimbabwe is making preparations for the upcoming special congress to chart the course for the next year; and 15 United Nations Peacekeepers have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the second hour of the program we look back at the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Massey Lectures featuring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in December 1967. Then we pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of the death of African American rhythm and blues artist Otis Redding.