Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to the Sun. Sept. 22, 2019 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 role of Zimbabwe in the upcoming United Nations General Assembly taking place this week in New York City; there has been a demonstration outside the United Nations headquarters demanding the ending of sanctions against Zimbabwe; the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guetteras has stressed the urgent need to address the specter of climate change on the eve of the 74th Ordinary General Assembly; and the Federal Republic of Nigeria has been elected as the President of the UNGA for the coming year in the personage of Prof. Tijani Muhammad-Bande. In the second hour we look back at the 48th anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion of 1971 where dozens of inmates and several guards were massacred by the State of New York in the aftermath of the seizure of the large maximum security facility. Finally, we rebroadcast an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe on the situation involving the political economy of Detroit's social crisis aired originally in Nov. 2017.