Pan-African Journal

Listen to the Sat. March 18, 2017 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 drought impacting Southern, Central and East Africa; tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe have staged a protest over the payments for their products by the banks; the Central African Republic government is requesting international assistance to avoid a humanitarian and security crisis; and the Syrian foreign ministry has announced that the military has shot down an Israeli Air Force plane which breached its territory on friday. In the second hour we continue our monthlong focus on Women's History Month looking at the role of African American Women in 1968 through a rare archival radio broadcast out of New York City. Finally, Ella Baker, the ideological and political founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), is honored through an address she delivered in New York City in 1968 on aspects of the-then struggle for African American liberation.

Listen to the Sun. March 12, 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 upcoming meeting between Republic of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and revolutionary war veterans; the governments of Russia and the North African state of Egypt have agreed upon a safety protocol for the resumption of airline flights between the two states; armed clashes have taken place in southern Tunisia resulting in the deaths of a police officer; and the central bank in the East African state of Tanzania has requested financial institutions to lower interests rates on commercial loans. In the second and third hours we continue our monthlong commemoration of Women's History Month with a rare archival lecture delivered by Shirley Graham Du Bois at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) on November 13, 1970 where she discusses the-then state of political developments in Africa and the Middle East.

Listen to the Sat. March 11, 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 renewed investigation into an alleged police plot in South Africa during 1994 to assassinate the newly-elected President Nelson Mandela; Muhammad Ali, Jr., son of the legendary heavyweight boxing champion and anti-war draft resister, has been stopped and questioned again by TSA officials in Washington, D.C.; the Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the United States backed war on the people of Yemen; and the United Nations has reiterated the dire humanitarian crisis globally which is the worst since the conclusion of World War II. In the second hour we continue our monthlog focus on International Women's History Month with an examination of African American women and work in the U.S. The final hour presents a lecture by Elizabeth Alexander discussing the Intellectual History of Black Women in America.

Listen to the Sun. March 5, 2017 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 plot by the United States and Turkey to create a famine in the Middle Eastern state of Syria; a class action lawsuit has been filed to halt the slave labor conditions fostered by the targeting of immigrants for detention and deportation in the U.S.; the ZANU-PF Youth League in Zimbabwe says that the only real opposition inside the Southern African state is the economy which has been impacted by sanctions imposed by the western imperialist states; and the African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has advanced a proposal for radical land redistribution inside the country. In the second hour we will speak with Toronto Bluesologist Norman Otis Richmond who will discuss the current situation in Canada involving race relations, the attacks on Muslims, among other issues. Our final segment will continue the monthlong focus on Women's History Month with an examination of the contributions of anti-lynching organizer and propagandist Ida B. Wells-Barnett.

Listen to this 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 political crisis inside the North African state of Tunisia where German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the country to discuss several bi-lateral initiatives; Egypt is also undergoing economic difficulties amid a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier in the week; fighting is intesifying in the Middle Eastern state of Iraq around Mosul as reports of a chemical weapons attack by rebels are emerging; and efforts are underway to rekindle diplomatic efforts to end the war in Syria. In the second hour we will present a rebroadcast of Global Research News Hour from Winnipeg, Canada where guest Abayomi Azikiwe discusses the current status of the African American movement in the United States. In the third hour we begin our monthlong commemoration of International Women's History Month with special segments on Harriet Tubman and Mary Church Terrell.

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 26, 2017 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. We will feature our regular PANW report with dispatches on the political crisis in the North African state of Tunisia; Egypt has been awarded a loan guarantee of $150 million from the British government; the imperialist states which destroyed the nation of Libya in 2011 has issued a statement calling for unity among the various factions throughout the country; and the United States economic crisis continues with the announcement by a leading retailer that well over 100 of their stores will be closed. In the second and third hours we conclude our month-long focus on African American History Month with a segment on Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik Shabazz).

Listen to the Sat. Feb. 25, 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-announced joint military exercises between the North African state of Tunisia along with France and the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM); a car bomb attack took place in the Horn of Africa state of Somalia in the aftermath of the national presidential elections; information has surfaced again on the role of the Canadian government in the police and military coup that toppled the government of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana 51 years ago; and finally, the son of Muhammad Ali was held up at immigration in Florida by authorities who questioned him about his religious affiliations. In the second hour we continue our focus on African American History Month with a rare archival speech by Malcolm X delivered in New York City in 1964. Also we will listen to an address by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to African Freedom Fighters in Accra during 1962.

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 19, 2017 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on an interview delivered by former President of the Southwest Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) and the Republic of Namibia, Sam Nujoma who discusses aspects of his life in the national liberation of Southern Africa; there has been a memo drafted by the United States Secretary of Homeland Security which calls for an intenification of the tracking, detention and deportation of targeted groups inside the country; 17 banks operating in South Africa have been brought before a commission for collusion in fixing currency rates; an election in the South American nation of Ecuador which will determine whether the nation remains on a progressive course. In the second and third hours we will continue our commemoration of African American History Month with focuses on Dr. Huey P. Newton and Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik Shabazz).

Listen to this edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast for Sat. Feb. 18, 2017, hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program will feature our regular PANW report with disptaches on the cyclone in Mozambique and its impact on other regional states; Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has challenged scienctists to develop reserach projects that foster national development; the Russian government is saying that it will not withdraw from Crimea nearly three years after a vote in favor of federation; and the Munich Security Conference in Germany has revealed the dissaray in the United States administration of President Donald Trump. In the second and third hours we will continue our focus on African American History Month with special segments on the 75th birthday of Dr. Huey P. Newton and the upcoming 52nd anniversary of the martyrdom of Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik Shabazz).

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 12, 2017 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. We will feature our regular PANW report with dispatches on the impact of technological research on politics in Africa; the government in Zimbabwe is pondering the backing up of its currency with gold reserves from the Southern African state; an editorial in the Global Times has discussed the character of China-Africa relations; and Yale University is changing the name of one of its colleges which was named after someone closely associated with the enslavement of African people. In the second and third hours we will continue our monthlong focus on African American History with segments examining the contributions of James Baldwin and Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik Shabazz).