Pan-African Journal

Listen to the Sat. Aug. 3, 2024 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 denial of a New York Times article by an Iran press agency on the circumstances surrounding the assassination of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh; Nigeria is the scene of mass demonstrations stemming from the crisis in political economy; the government in Abuja has pleaded for the halt of the national protests; and people are being killed by the security forces in Nigeria. In the second hour we look closer at the situation in Nigeria. Finally, we begin our monthlong commemoration of Black August with a reexamination of the Haitian Revolution through C.L.R. James' book The Black Jacobins.

Listen to the Tues. July 30, 2024 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our PANW report with dispatches on the planned youth-led demonstrations in the West African state of Nigeria; despite the presence of Kenyan police, instability continues in Haiti; the East African Community (EAC) has issued a mpox alert; and Ugandan police are warning anti-corruption activists against mass demonstrations. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer with rare audio archival interviews with Bob Moses, Julian Bond and Malcolm X.

Listen to the Sun. July 28, 2024 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 escalation of clashes on the borders between Lebanon and Israel; Venezuela is holding elections today; the United States has announced sanctions against some rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); and 23 people were killed in RSF attacks on El Fasher in the Republic of Sudan. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer 1964.

Listen to the Sat. July 27, 2024 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the role of Kenya in the ongoing Olympics Games; Niger and its government have created serious economic problems from the French-owned uranium firm which had dominated the country for years; the Democratic of Congo (DRC) leadership has accused Kenya of collaborating with Rwanda in sabatoging the country; and a Russian frigate has paid a visit to the North African state of Algeria and the Port of Oran. In the second hour we look back on the Batte for Selma some 59 years ago. Finally, we pay tribute to Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, a co-founder of the SNCC Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock.

Listen to the Fri. July 26, 2024 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the fact that the United States has given 20,000 bombs to the Israeli Defense Forces since Oct, 7; Yemen is vowing to continue its attacks on Tel Aviv and its interests; the South African Communist Party (SACP) has issued a statement from its meeting in Limpopo province; and the SACP has hailed the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its decision on the settler-colonial regime occupying Palestine. In the second and third hours we pay tribute to African American vocalist, organizer and scholar Bernice Johnson Reagon.

Listen to the Sat. July 20, 2024 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our PANW report with dispatches on the IDF bombing of a civilian infrastructural oil depot in Yemen; there are efforts still underway to remove President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee for 2024; a growing number of Democrats want Biden off the ticket and replaced with Vice President Kamala Harris; and a judge in Kenya has lifted the ban on youth-led demonstrations which have been taking place over the last month in the East African state. In the second and third hours we look back on the origins of the student movement which led to Freedom Summer. The Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) played a pivotal role in the events which culminated in Mississippi during the summer of 1964.

Listen to the Sat. July 13, 2024 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our PANW report with dispatches on the attempted assassination of former United States President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania; there has been another massacre at al-Mawasi in the Gaza Strip; Zimbabwe is preparing to host a Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit. Later we look some aspects of the history of political assassinations in the U.S.

Listen to the Sun. July 7, 2024 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the French elections and the surge of the New Popular Front; the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has requested again the return of the Alliance of Sahel States which left last year; Nigeria claims it has degraded the rebel groups operating inside the country; and the newly-elected UK Prime Minister declared that the Rwanda deportation scheme is dead and buried. We continue our focus on Freedom Summer of 1964 with a reexamination of the passage of the Civil Rights Act passed in July of that year. Finally, we listen to an audio documentary with James Baldwin on a tour of a west coast city sixty years ago.

Listen to the Sat. July 6, 2024 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the growing efforts to remove President Joe Biden as head of the Democratic Party ticket for November; a letter has been sent to Biden from Democratic Party donors asking him to step aside as the candidate; the BRICS Summit is expanding; and the Russian military is making advances in the war taking place in Ukraine. In the second and third hours we will focus on the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer. We look back on the kidnapping and murder of three Civil Rights workers that fateful summer.

Listen to the Fri. July 5, 2024 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the Lebanese resistance responses to the martyrdom of one of its commanders; the IDF is still bombing residential areas in Gaza; in the United States Senator Mark Warner is reportedly convening a meeting to discuss the future of President Joe Biden; and Kenyan President William Ruto is blaming officials for the police brutality plaguing the East African state. In the second and third hours we listen to a panel discussion on the situation in Palestine.