Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast

09/04/18 • 187 min

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.

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Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to the Sun. Aug. 26, 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 upcoming national elections in the Southern African state of Botswana; the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will be tackling the current political crisis in Comoros Islands; the government in the Republic of Namibia will be negotiations surrounding land redistribution in the next few months; and the newly-inaugurated head-of-state of the Republic of Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has appealed to opposition forces to work towards the building of the country. In the second hour we continue our focus on Black August with a rare archival audio file on the character of political repression leveled against the Black Panther Party some five decades ago. Finally we look back at the national independence struggle in Namibia where on this date (Aug. 26) of 1966 the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) began its armed struggle against the racist apartheid regime then occupying the country.

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Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to the Sat. Sept. 8, 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 recent statement by former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and First Lady Grace saying they want to mend relations with the current administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa; the African National Congress (ANC) ruling party in the Republic of South Africa issued a report on its engagement with Agric SA on land reform; People's Republic of China President Xi Jinping has met with African Union Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat after the Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing; and Republic of Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has held talks with his Ugandan counterpart President Yoweri Museveni on the South Sudan peace process. During the second hour we look at the literary contributions of Langston Hughes. Finally in the last hour we rebroadcast a speech by novelist and essayist James Baldwin delivered in 1963 on The Fire Next Time.