Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast

09/16/18 • 180 min

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.

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Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to the Sun. Sept. 9, 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 the dispatches on the ongoing attacks by the Boko Haram sect in the West African state of Nigeria; women in Mozambique have been playing a leading role in reopening national parks closed since the era of the civil war; former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has resigned as secretary general of the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA); and the Zimbabwe state media is saying that President Emmerson Mnangagwa came away from the FOCAC summit with enormous support for the Southern African state. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on the literary contributions of African Americans highlighting Langston Hughes and James Baldwin.

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Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to the Sun. Sept. 16, 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 recently signed peace agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia in Saudia Arabia amid rising violence outside the capital of Addis Ababa; the United States government will continue its draconian sanctions regime against the Southern African state of Zimbabwe despite the July 30 harmonized elections; Africa will be negatively impacted by the Washington-instigated trade war; and the remains of genocide victims in Namibia during the early 20th century have been returned from Germany. In the second hour we look back at the historic Attica Prison rebellion of Sept. 1971 which resulted in the massacre of dozens of inmates and guards. Finally we continue our focus on African American contributions to the literary field with a speech delivered by James Baldwin in 1964.