Pan-African Journal

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 impact of Trump's executive order the social justice movements in the United States; the nineth circuit federal appeals court has refused to lift a stay on the Trump administration's ban of people from seven countries in Africa and the Middle East; South African President Jacob Zuma has delivered his State of the Nation Address calling for a redistribution of wealth inside the country; and immigration officials across the U.S. have conducted widespread arrests of people on alleged violations. In the second hour we continue our monthlong commemoration of African American History Month with focuses on James Baldwin and Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik Shabazz).

Listen to the Sun.. Feb. 5, 2017 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 criticism leveled at the African Union (AU) Summit by the South African Communist Party (SACP) over the admission of the Kingdom of Morocco absent of their recognition of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in the Western Sahara; Iran maintains that it has a sovereign right to strengthen its defenses amid imperialist provocations; a federal judge in Washington state has placed a restraining order on the Trump administration ban on seven different countries in Africa and the Middle East; and a neo-fascist propagandist was prevented from speaking earlier in the week at the University of California at Berkeley. In the second hour we begin a monthlong commemoration of African American History with an examination of the life, times and legacy of novelist, essayist, playwright. commentator and activist James Baldwin. A docuentary film on Baldwin is being released this month.

Listen to the Sat. Feb. 4, 2017 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 criticism leveled at the African Union (AU) Summit by the South African Communist Party (SACP) over the admission of the Kingdom of Morocco absent of their recognition of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in the Western Sahara; Iran maintains that it has a sovereign right to strengthen its defenses amid imperialist provocations; a federal judge in Washington state has placed a restraining order on the Trump administration ban on seven different countries in Africa and the Middle East; and a neo-fascist propagandist was prevented from speaking earlier in the week at the University of California at Berkeley. In the second hour we begin a monthlong commemoration of African American History with an examination of the life, times and legacy of novelist, essayist, playwright. commentator and activist James Baldwin. A docuentary film on Baldwin is being released this month.

Listen to this 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 international furor over the ban on millions from Muslim dominated states in North Africa and the Middle East by the Trump administration; the African Union is to decide on the new commission chair at its summit taking place this week; the UK government has denied a hearing to victims of the environmental damage done by the extraction of oil from Nigeria; and the West African state of Ghana has experienced an explosion at a local oil production facility. In the second hour we review the Memphis sanitation workers strike of early 1968 which brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to the that Southern city leading to his assassination on April 4. Finally we hear excerpts from the speeches of Coretta Scott King.

Listen to the Sat. Jan. 28, 2017 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program includes our regular PANW reports with dispatches on the closing of more than 20 schools in the city of Detroit which has been subjected to emergency management and other forms of outside interference for the last 18 years; United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order in defiance of the Indigenous people at Standing Rock to resume construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL); the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has sharply criticized the decision by Trump to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico; and the Egyptian foreign minister has met with his Ethiopian counterpart to discuss the development of the Great Renaissance Dam Project. In the second hour we will rebroadcast a radio lecture by Abayomi Azikiwe from 2014 chronicling the historical crisis of the underdevelopment of the city of Detroit within the context of the continuing attacks on African Americans. Finally we conclude our monthlong tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. examining his opposition to the war in Vietnam.

Listen to the Sun. Jan. 22, 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 continuing war in the North African state of Libya where regional states are calling for a political resolution of the conflicts as an alternative to another military intervention; a recent mutiny in the Ivorian army has exposed the fallacy of a stable regime in the aftermath of the French coup against President Laurent Gbagbo in April 2011; the Angolan and Spanish government have announced a security agreement; and finally the Zimbabwe government says it has produced a record output of gold inside the Southern African state. In the second hour we will speak with Detroit activists Violeta Donawa on her recent work in the Republic of Angola. Finally we will hear a interview from Philadephia on the efforts by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections which is seeking to appeal the ruling mandates healthcare for Mumia Abu-Jamal in his battle with Hepatitis C.

Listen to the Sat. Jan. 21, 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 removal of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and the installation of another leader which was engineered by the Pentagon utilizing AFRICOM-coordinated ECOWAS forces from Senegal and Nigeria; women have demonstrated across the United States and the world against the regime of Donald Trump; and Trump made his first address to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) saying he supports them 1000 percent. In the second hour we rebroadcast a Global Research News Hour program on geo-political destabilization campaigns carried out by the Pentagon from Asia to West Africa. In the final hour there is a rebroadcast of an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe on the political situation in Ivory Coast.

Listen to the Sun. Jan. 15, 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 a campaign for the release of a South African photojournalist who has been kidnapped while working in northern Syria; on the eve of the inauguration of United States President-elect Donald Trump, the former chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Cong. John Lewis of Georgia, has announced that the incoming head-of-state is not legitimate; in Philadelphia educators have said they will develop modules to teach about the struggle against racism; and in Chicago an immigrant rights rally was held to proclaim that this constituency will not be removed from the U.S. In the second and third hours we continue our commemoration of the 88th birthday of the Civil Rights and antiwar martyr Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The focus will be on the burgeoning mass struggles in the urban areas of Chicago and Detroit during 1966-67.

Listen to the Sat. Jan. 14, 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 visit of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to the Franco-Africa Summit in Mali; demonstrations have erupted in the North African state of Tunisia on the sixth anniversary of the overthrow of former leader Ben Ali; the dreaded Zika virus has been cited in the Southern African state of Angola; and finally right-wing opposition leader in the Republic of South Africa from the so-called Democratic Alliance has been condemned for his visit to the State of Israel. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on the life, times and contributions of the Civil Rights and Antiwar martyr Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Chicago Freedom Movement of 1966 and King's position on the Vietnam War in 1967 will be examined.

Listen to the Sun. Jan. 8, 2017 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program presents our regular PANW report with dispatches on the military mutiny in the West African state of Ivory Coast where representatives of the neo-colonial backed regime of Alassane Ouattara met with rebel soldiers in an effort to reach an agreement; South Africa's ruling party the African National Congress (ANC) is celebrating its 105th anniversary today; an editorial published in the Zimbabwe Sunday Mail has called for the eradication of factionalism within the ruling ZANU-PF ruling party; and violent attacks are continuing in the Horn of Africa nation of Somalia amid national elections to select a new parliament. In the second hour we continue our commemoration of the 88th birthday of Civil Rights and Antiwar martyr Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We will focus on the events in 1963 reviewing the assassination of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers and a rare archival interview of Dr. King by international correspondents from Ghana and India. In the final hour we hear a lecture by African American writer James Baldwin presenting his views on the struggle during 1963.