Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode will include PANW reports on the recent attack against the African Union headquarters in Mogadishu, Somalia; the ongoing tensions between police and the African American community in the United States; and the economic impact of the decline in oil and other commodity prices internationally. The second hour consists of two rare audio features on legendary African American novelist, essayist and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston, plus an 1965 archived interview with Fannie Lou Hamer, a field secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and vice chairperson of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). The final hour presents an examination of the history of the oil industry in U.S. history.