Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to the Sun. Jan. 1, 2023 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 PANW report with dispatches on the inauguration of the Brazilian President Lula da Silva amid plans for the funeral of soccer legend Pele; Togolese traders are welcoming the reopening of the People's Republic of China; the Ivory Coast government pledges to return soldiers recently convicted in neighboring Mali;  and nine people were killed in a stampede in the East African state of Uganda during a New Year's celebration. In the second hour we continue our review of the 55th anniversary of the Massey Lectures delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in late 1967. Today represents the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 during the Civil War. We hear a lecture on the significance of the act by then President Abraham Lincoln to the outcome of the war. Finally, we look back on the 64th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution on Jan. 1, 1959.