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 the African Union summit being held in the East African state of Rwanda; the AU is poised to institute a continental trade zone and passport; the North African monarchy of Morocco is attempting to rejoin the AU after resigning over the question of the Western Sahara; and the attempt to overthrow the Turkish government by elements of the military has sent shockwaves through the NATO and the entire western imperialist states allied with the United States. The second hour features an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe on the efforts by the State of Israel to reestablish diplomatic and economic ties to African countries.

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 demonstrations demanding an end to police violence against African Americans across the United States; striking civil servants in the Southern African state of Zimbabwe have returned to work after receiving their delayed salaries from the ZANU-PF government; there are reports that the AMISOM occupation of Somalia will end by 2018 amid ongoing attacks against the federal government in Mogadishu; and the South Sudanese coalition administration is attempting to stop an apparent mutiny by some elements of the military. Finally we take a look at the history of policing in the U.S. and its racist origins during the 19th century.

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 nationwide demonstrations against police violence across the United States; the shooting of 12 police officers and the deaths of five have sent shockwaves throughout the country and internationally; the suspect in the ambush of police in Dallas was a former army reserve soldier who served during the US-NATO occupation of Afghanistan; and a new generation of African American youth have emerged in mass protests denouncing police brutality and the use of lethal force. In the second hour we look at the role of the Caribbean island-nation of Cuba in the provision of healthcare domestically and globally. The final segment will continue to highlight the role of Ida B. Wells-Barnett in bringing to the fore the struggle against racist violence beginning over 130 years ago.

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 recent killing of an African American by police in Tupelo, Mississippi; the Egyptian government is saying that more remains have been found from the EgyptAir MS804 flight that went down in a flight from Paris to Cairo; an update on developments leading up to the local governmental elections in South Africa; and Africans continue to respond to the Brexit vote and its subsequent turmoil in the UK and Europe. In the second segment we review the historical speech by abolitionist Frederick Douglass from 1852 on the irony of the 4th of July to African people. Later we talk with Toronto Bluesologist Norman Otis Richmond on the life and legacy of African-Caribbean writer Austin Clarke. Our final segment looks back at the contributions of Ida B. Wells-Barnett in the struggle against lynching and for women's rights during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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 the legacy of Kwame Nkrumah and regional affairs in Southern Africa; the state-run media in Harare is examining the possibility of a third force in the border violence between Zimbabwe and South Africa; Somalia's first woman presidential candidate seeks to open dialogue with Al-Shabaab; and Africans continue to weigh-in on the Brexit vote and its aftermath. In the second hour we pay tribute to African-Caribbean journalist Austin Clarke through a 1963 interview with Malcolm X. The final segment of this episode reviews the contributions of journalist and anti-lynching crusader 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. This program will feature our regular PANW repor with dispatches on continuing responses to the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and its international implications; the current economic situation in the Republic of South Africa; the corruption investigations in the Federal Republic of Nigeria; and the oil industry in Ghana. In the second hour we focus on the false construct of independence day in the United States through an audio file featuring African American historian Gerald Horne on the Counter-Revolution of 1776. Finally we reexamine the life and work of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the struggle for self-determination and against lynching in the U.S. during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Listen to this special edition of 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 continuing fallout around the Brexit vote this time on the Labor Party where members are calling for the ouster of Jeremy Corbyn; in Somalia there has been an attack at a hotel in the capital of Mogadishu in the Horn of Africa state; the North African state of Libya is still the scene of deadly violence in the eastern city of Benghazi the birthplace of the counter-revolution of 2011. In the second hour we conclude our monthlong commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Black Power Movement looking at its antecedents through Malcolm X through Stokely Carmichael. The conclusion of the episode begins a discussion of the continuation of the Black Power Movement and the urban rebellions into Detroit which held the largest uprising the following summer in July 1967..

Listen to this 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 fallout from the Exit vote by the British electorate to leave the European Union; we will look at the positions of leading left organizations; the response to the vote in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and the United States. In the second hour this episode will review the history of Mozambique in light of the 41st anniversary of its delcaration of independence on June 25, 1975 from Portuguese colonialism. In the final hour we continue our focus on the 50th anniversary of the Black Power movement.

Listen to 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 reports with dispatches on the policies enacted by the Zimbabwe government to adddress the liquidity crisis in the Southern African state by introducing a basket of currencies into the economy; the ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has been sentenced to life plus fifteen years in prison some three years after he was overthrown in a military coup in July 2013; divisions continue to plaugue the post-Gaddafi era in the North African state of Libya where the United Nations imposed Government of National Accord (GNA) remains a fragile entity and the hope of United States imperialism; and the Pentagon is maintaining its war against the people of Somalia through airstrikes and support for the surrogate federal regime. In the second hour we continue our monthlong commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Black Power Movement through a classic speech by Stokely Carmichael delivered at the University of California at Berkely in Oct. 1966. Finally we are extending our recognition of the 40th anniversary of the national student uprising in South Africa which began on June 16, 1976.

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 efforts by the Zimbabwe government to track down resources looted from the diamond sector which have been stored away in Britain; South African President Jacob Zuma has blamed the legacy of the apartheid regime for the current crisis in education during a rally commemorating the 40th anniversary of the national student uprising of 1976; the migration crisis in the Mediterranean is worsening once again due to the instability caused by imperialism in the North African state of Libya; and documents have been revealed illustrating that acting Brazilian President Michel Temer served as an informant to the United States government against the Worker's Party suspended President Dilma Rousseff. In the second hour we continue our monthlong commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Black Power Movement of 1966 highlighting the demands of the struggle being contrasted with reaction from the white community. Finally we look back four decades at the national student uprising in South Africa of June 1976 which changed the political trajectory of the country leading to majority rule some 18 years later.