Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to this episode 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 continuing political fallout from the United States airstrikes on Syria that resulted in multiple civilian casualities; a crackdown in Turkey has resulted in the detention of thousands of members of the government and military in the aftermath of an attempted July 15; the ruling ZANU-PF party in the Southern African nation of Zimbabwe has called for discipline among the war veterans association where controversy has esclated over the release of a documnent critical of the government; and the South African government is preparing for local governmental elections this coming week. In the second hour we will interview Toronto bluesologist Norman Otis Richmond on the life, legacy and contributions of Al Hamilton. Finally we will continue our review of the history of the imperialist war against Vietnam waged by the French colonialists who were defeated at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.