Pan-African Journal

Listen to this episode of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast for Sat. Dec. 3, 2016. The program is hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. In this edition we continue our tribute to the life, times and contributions of Comandante en Jeffe President Fidel Castro Ruz of the Republic of Cuba. In this broadcast we hear from the President of the Republic of South Africa Jacob Zuma on Cuba's role in the liberation of Southern Africa. In addition, there is an interview with former South African President Thabo Mbeki as well. Also we present rare archival audio files of an interview with Fidel Castro over Face the Nation in Jan. 1959 and with Lisa Howard of ABC television in April 1963.

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 continues our commemoration of the life, times and contributions of Comandante President Fidel Castro Ruz (1926-2016). In this program we present additional tributes paid to the revolutionary leader and founder of the Cuban Revolution from around the world. During the first segment we will present a rare archival audio file of a speech delivered by Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro at Harvard Law School in 1959. Later we review the United States effort to overthrow the Cuban Revolution through the Bay of Pigs invastion of early 1961 and subsequent plots to cover-up the actual role of the administration of John F. Kennedy. In the second hour we talk with Prof. Charles Simmons (Emeritus) of Detroit who as a youth protested deployment in the United States Air Force surrounding the Cuban Missile crisis of October 1962. Simmons later visited Cuba in 1964 with other youth activists when they met the-then Prime Minister Fidel Castro and numerous leaders of the Revolution. In later years Simmons worked as a senior correspondent for the Muhammad Speaks newspaper and the Associated Press writing extensively on African and Middle Eastern affairs. In the final hour we look at the role of culture in the Cuban Revolution and its transformation over the decades.

Listen to the Sat. Nov. 26, 2016 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This program is dedicated to the life and times of former Cuban President and leader of the Cuban Communist Party who passed away on Friday evening Nov. 25. This tribute includes an audio biography of Fidel and the history of the Cuban Revolution during the first hour. The second and third hour focuses on the role of Cuba in the African Revolution looking at Havana's efforts in Congo and Angola.

Listen to the Fri. Nov. 25, 2016 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 address by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe before the national parliament; there has been an attack on Egyptian police in the Sinai region of the country resulting in the deaths of eight security personnel; the Green Party in the state of Wisconsin has petition for and won approval for a recount of the presidential ballots; and finally the people of Chicago have demonstrated for the second year in a row along the third most lucrative retail districts in the United States, the Magnificent Mile in the Loop in protest against a series of police killings of African Americans. In the second hour we rebroadcast a Global Research News Hour program from 2014 featuring host Abayomi Azikiwe discussing the geo-political origins of the Boko Haram conflict in northeast Nigeria. In the last hour we present an archived audio file from August 2016 which includes an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe on the Detroit economic and social crises.

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 continuing fighting in and around Sirte in western Libya; the Tunisian President has requested Pentagon drone support in the targeting of Islamic State fighters on the border with Libya; the African Union will hold its first ever debate over the selection of the future AU Commission Chairperson; and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has just returned to Harare after attending the 4th Africa-Arab Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. In the second hour we look at the case of political prisoner Leonard Peltier of the American Indian Movement (AIM). A campaign is ongoing to pressure United States President Barack Obama to grant clemency in his case. Also we feature two reports on the alliance between Africans and Indigenous people against American settlers in what became known as the Seminole Wars.

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 will present a concentrated focus on the recently-held World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) 17th Congress in Durban, Republic of South Africa. We will hear some of the addresses delivered at the gathering between October 5-8, 2016. Also two delegates from the United States, Johnnie Stevens and Martha Grevatt, will join us in the second hour to get their impressions on the meeting which was attended by workers' organizations throughout the world.

Listen to this 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 developments in South Africa, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cuba. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense presenting audio files on the organization.

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast for Sun. Nov. 6, 2016 hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. We will feature our regular PANW report with dispatches on the decline in the Egyptian dollar amid an ongoing economiic crisis in the North African state; an offensive backed by the United States has been launched against the northeastern Syrian city of Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State; the South African Communist Party (SACP) has issued a statement on the death of convicted killer of former General Secretary Chris Hani in 1993; and the foreign ministers of South Africa and Zimbabwe have made statements on the recently-held trade talks between the two leading regional states in Harare. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense examining the contributions of Fred Hampton, Sr., the martyred Deputy Chairman of the Illinois Chapter. In the final hour we look at the International Section of the BPP which was based in Algeria beginning in 1969.

Listen to this 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 recent talks between South African President Jacob Zuma and his Zimbabwe counterpart Robert Mugabe over the development of trade regulations between the two countries; President Zuma of South Africa has given an address in response to the release of a report on "state capture" saying he rejects the legalization of politics and does not fear going to prison since he spent many years there during the era of apartheid; the Turkish government has continued its crackdown on opponents with the arrests of several leading Kurdish politicians; and Saudi Arabia is rejecting any responsibility for the damage done in its 20-month old war in neighboring Yemen. In the second and third hours we continue last month's focus on the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense with a rare archival audio file of an interview with Chairman Bobby Seale during his time in prison in 1969. Also the Detroit counterpart to the BPPSD, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW), made a tremendous contribution to the theory and practice of African American liberation during the late 1960s and early 1970s. We will hear some of the leading voices of the League including John Watson, Ken Cockrel, Sr., Ron March and others.

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast for Sun. Oct. 30, 2016. The program is hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the upcoming presidential elections in the West African state of Ghana where the Convention People's Party has accused the ruling National Democratic Congress of misrepresenting the words of CPP founder and former President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who is being utilized in the campaign propaganda of current President John Mahama; despite a proclaim ceasefire by Washington and London several weeks ago, the Saudi-GCC Coalition launched a massive bombing operation in Yemen; a continuing purge of the civil service in the Middle Eastern state of Turkey has impacted at least 1,000 people; and the US presidential race has been thrown into uncertainty with the reopening of an investigation into the e-mail usage of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In the second hour we hear a rebroadcast of the Community Public Radio broadcast from Oct. 25 where host Abayomi Azikiwe was interviewed by Don DeBar on various issues on the African continent. Finally we continue our monthlong focus on the history of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense on the 50th anniversary of its founding.