Pan-African Journal

Listen to the Pan-African Journal: 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 recently-held national presidential elections in the Southern African nation of Zambia where incumbent President Edgar Lungu was declared the victor; the governments of Zimbabwe and Mozambique have signed a memorandum of understanding dealing with the transferal of prisoners who are nationals of each country who are being held by each respective state; the Egyptian government is continuing negotiations with neighborng Ethiopia over the terms of the usage of the Nile and the construction of the Great Renaissance Dam Project; and finally the African American population in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are assessing the impact of a rebellion against police brutality which occured earlier in the week.

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 rebellion in Milwaukee in response to the police killing of an African American youth on August 13; in Queens New York an Imam and his assistant were gunned by an assassin on Saturday; the preliminary results of the national presidential elections in Zambia indicate that the incumbent Edgar Lungu has taken an early lead; and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has issued an assessment of the recently-held local governmental elections. In the second hour we continue our monthlong commemoration of Black August with special segments on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831 and the Watts Rebellion of 1965. Finally, we look back one year at the assassination of Hugo Pinell in a California prison after five decades of incarceration.

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 will feature our regular PANW report with dispatches on the escalating United States engineered war against the people of Yemen where casualties are mounting; the Syrian army has intensified its military campaign against the imperialist-backed forces seeking to take control of the Middle Eastern state; the South African Communist Party has issued a preliminary appraisal of the recently-held local governmental elections in the Republic of South Africa; and finally the Zimbabwe government has issued a schedule for the delayed payment of the salaries of civil servants. In the second hour we continue our focus on Black August with the second part of the discussions on the historical significance of the Haitian Revolution and the 1811 slave rebellion along the German coast in Louisiana. Finally, we will listen to an archived program of Global Research News Hour featuring Abayomi Azikiwe on the Black Lives Matter Movement of today.

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 includes our regular PANW report with dispatches on the recently-held local governmental elections in the Republic of South Africa; the government in Zimbabwe has cracked down on leaders of the National Liberation War Veterans Association after the release of a document criticizing the leader of the ruling ZANU-PF party President Robert Mugabe; fighting is continuing in the Somalia capital of Mogadishu where Al-Shabaab has launched attacked aimed at weakening the western-backed Federal government; and in Egypt the military says it has killed a number of armed opponents of Cairo in the Sinai region bordering occupied Palestine. We will continue the acknowledgement of the annual Black August commemorations honoring the legacy of resistance by African people in the United States and the world. Finally we look at another historic August rebellion which began in Haiti in 1791 leading to the triumph of the Revolution in 1804.

Listen to this edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program will feature our regular PANW report with dispatches on the recently-held South African local governmental elections; the trade negotiations taking place between Zimbabwe and South Africa; people throughout the region are gearing up for the celebration of the 90th birthday of former Cuban President Fidel Castro; and the Obama administration continues to bomb the North African state of Libya. During the second hour we focus on the beginning of the annual commemoration of Black August. In this episode we look at the literary intrepretation of the so-called Nat Turner rebellion in Virginia duriing August 1831. Finally we listen to a classic archived address by the-then Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba speaking at Harvard University in 1959.

Listen to this episode 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 political fallout from the United States airstrikes on Syria that resulted in multiple civilian casualities; a crackdown in Turkey has resulted in the detention of thousands of members of the government and military in the aftermath of an attempted July 15; the ruling ZANU-PF party in the Southern African nation of Zimbabwe has called for discipline among the war veterans association where controversy has esclated over the release of a documnent critical of the government; and the South African government is preparing for local governmental elections this coming week. In the second hour we will interview Toronto bluesologist Norman Otis Richmond on the life, legacy and contributions of Al Hamilton. Finally we will continue our review of the history of the imperialist war against Vietnam waged by the French colonialists who were defeated at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

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 reports with dispatches on the US airstrikes in Syria which killed over 100 civilians since July 19; Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe held a meeting with the war veterans association just this last past week at ZANU-PF headquarters in Harare; South African government officials are preparing for the local governmental election during early August; and the National Democratic Convention inside the United States was marked by rancour and instability between the proponents of Hillary Clinton and the supporters of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. In the second hour we look back at the circumstances surrounding the 1964 DNC in Atlantic City where the Mississippi Freedom Demnocratic Party challenged the status quo on the questions of voting rights and self-determination. Finally we also review the history of the US war against Vietnam and its impact on the Democratic Party during the 1960s.

Listen to the Sun. July 24, 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 ongoinig political fallout surrounding the memorandum issued by the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association criticizing the ZANU-PF Party; an analyst says that the Republic of South Africa must grow by five percent in order to make significant economic progress; there has been a Black Lives Matter demonstration in the South American state of Brazil; and the Democratic Party is in disarray after the revelations surrounding the conspiracy to place former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the presumptive nominee. In the second hour we listen to a rare archived speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered at Stanford University in 1967 where he discusses the problems of poverty and economic injustice in the United States. Finally, the field of African Studies is still being distorted on an academic level by white racism in the publications field.

Listen to this edition of the Pan-African African Journal: 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 Zimbabwe government's response to a memorandum issued by the War Veterans Association which is critical of the rulng ZANU-PF Party; the South African prosecutorial authority is appealing the sentence given to athelete Oscar Pistorius involving the murder of his girlfriend; there is further commentary about the attack on the former Olympic Village in Munich, Germany on July 22 amid a rash of similar actions across Europe; and there has been a bomb attack on a demonstration in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul earlier today. In the second hour we continue our examination of the history of the contributions of Ida B. Wells-Barnett to the struggle against racist violence during the late 19th and early 20th century. The final segment looks at the contemporary relations between the Republic of South Africa and the People's Republic of China.

Listen to this episode Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. Our program features the regular PANW report with dispatches on the African Union Summit in Kigali, Rwanda where the conflict in South Sudan will be placed in a prominent position on the agenda; the AU is slated to move towards a continential trade zone along with a passport; the government in Zimbabwe is holding with neighboring South Africa to iron our trade issues between the two Southern African state; and the Zimbabwe government is beginning an audit of the Marange diamond fields closed down earlier this year over irregularies. The second hour presents a birthday tribute to Assata Shakur living in exile in Cuba for many years. Finally we look at the impact of racial profiling of African Americans in the United States.