Pan-African Journal

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 centenary of the African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Albertina Sisulu; Zimbabwe has put forward an economic development plan in the effort to build the nation towards self-reliance and prosperity; Nigerian President Mahammadu Buhari has been renominated to run for office again in 2019; and African women are responding to the #metoo online movement which originated in the West. In the second hour we look back at the historic speech delivered by Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture) at the University of California at Berkeley in Oct. 1966 on the-then burgeoning Black Power Movement. In the final hour we hear additional speeches from the 73rd Ordinary Session of the United National General Assembly held last month in New York City. In this episode we listen to the address from President Hassan Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Listen to the Sat. Sept. 29, 2018 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 upcoming national conference on land reform in the Southern African state of the Republic of Namibia; Rwandan President Paul Kagame has addressed the 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on the role of Africa in the world today; Zimbabwe is continuing to fight the cholera epidemic which has killed 49 people; and the Republic of South Africa reported a trade surplus in the month of August amid the recent declaration of a technical recession. In the second and third hours we listen to the speeches delivered during the 73rd UNGA from the leaders of Cuba, Palestine and South Africa.

Listen to the Sat. Sept. 15, 2018 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 recently-held elections for Student Representative Council at Limpopo University in the Republic of South Africa which was won by the South African Students Congress (SASCO); there have been accusations about a possible assassination plot against opposition figures in Congo-Brazzaville; a Rwandan opposition politician has been released from detention inside the country; and the Socialist Party of Nigeria has undergone a leadership change. In the second hour we rebroadcast the Sept. 12 Leid Stories program highlighting host Abayomi Azikiwe. Finally we look at the literary contributions of African Americans with a rare archival radio interview with James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry and Langston Hughes.

Listen to the Sun. Sept. 3, 2018 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. Our program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the ongoing Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) being held in Beijing; South Africa has been the scene of an explosion near a munitions factory; Uganda Member of Parliament Bobbi Wine has delivered a statement claiming he was tortured by the security forces; and Britain has pledged funds for the continuation of the AMISOM mission in Somalia. In the second hour we will listen to a rebroadcast of an interview with host Abayomi Azikiwe aired over KPFA radio in Berkeley, California over the Africa Today program. Finally we look back on more than two weeks of commemoration surrounding the transition of Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin.

Listen to the Sun. Aug. 12, 2018 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 announcement by Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila that he will not seek another term in office; Ethiopia and Eritrea are seeking to build an oil pipeline from the port of Assab with the cooperation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE); Eritrea says it is siding with Saudi Arabia over a dispute with Canada; and the West African state of Mali has gone to the polls to select its leadership for the next four years. In the second hour we will continue our monthlong commemoration of Black August by broadcasting part two of a rare archival interview with resistance historian Herbert Aptheker. Also there is a rebroadcast of an interview with host Abayomi Azikiwe who discussed the recent property tax foreclosure settlement in Detroit over Leid Stories which aired initially on Mon. Aug. 6 on the Progressive Radio Network (PRN.FM).