Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to the Sat. Sept. 22, 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 economic recovery program announced by Republic of South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sept. 21 in response to the declaration of a technical recession; charges have been dropped against the former chief of staff of the Angolan military amid allegations of corruption; the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) electoral commission has announced a list of approved candidates for the upcoming national poll in December; and the government of Zimbabwe has been attempting to clear vendors from the streets of the capital of Harare after a cholera epidemic has killed over 30 people. In the second and third hours we look back at the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham by white racists some 55 years later. We listen to an audio documentary on the lead up to the terrorist attack when thousands of students were mobilized in April and May aimed at breaking down legalized segregation. Another documentary looks at the atmosphere surrounding the bombing which killed four girls on Sept. 15, 1963.