Abayomi Azikiwe

United States

Editor at Pan-African News Wire

Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of the Pan-African News Wire.

Articles

Black Agenda Report

4 days ago | blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Ann Garrison |Abayomi Azikiwe

Despite shared language, culture, and religion, Somalis still struggle to become a cohesive nation. Somalia is a nation of six million with territory roughly the size of Alaska and just larger than the UK. Its highly geostrategic coastline is the longest in Africa, sitting at the intersection of the European, African, and Asian worlds.
Black Agenda Report

4 days ago | blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison |Abayomi Azikiwe

Conservation in Africa has long been a smokescreen for imperial power. Veiled behind the cause of environmentalism and stopping poachers, western governments, intelligence agencies, and billionaire-funded NGOs expand their reach by deploying drones, private armies, and surveillance tech. The bombastic and unfounded claims of “white genocide” by Donald Trump overshadowed other important discussion points raised during his meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in May 2025.
Black Agenda Report

1 week ago | blackagendareport.com | Dylan Sullivan |Jason Hickel |Hanna Eid |Abayomi Azikiwe

As workers across Africa face growing challenges, the leadership of the African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation remains crucial in the fight for labor rights and social justice. This profile explores their vision for a fairer future amid rising inequality and economic uncertainty. Originally published in Equal Times.
Africa Liberation Day Must Advance the Struggle for Continental Unity and a Liberated Palestine

1 week ago | newsghana.com.gh | Abayomi Azikiwe

Capitalism is in deep crisis and the only remedy is the organization and mobilization of the workers, oppressed and youth throughout the worldGeostrategic ReviewNote: These remarks were prepared for and delivered in part to the African Liberation Day (ALD) webinar held on Sunday May 25, 2025.
Niger Uranium and Regional Security in the Sahel - Global Research

2 weeks ago | globalresearch.ca | Abayomi Azikiwe

On July 26, 2023, the military-led Committee to Safeguard the Homeland (CNSP) took power in the West African state of Niger. Immediately the burgeoning anti-French sentiment inside the country erupted and a completely new political atmosphere was created. French troops were asked to leave the country while the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) forces present in Niger along with their drone stations departed as well at the aegis of the CNSP leaders.
Black Agenda Report

2 weeks ago | blackagendareport.com | Abayomi Azikiwe |Hanna Eid |Mark Fancher

Malcolm X didn’t just fight for Black liberation—he waged war on empire itself. As U.S. militarism tightens its grip on Africa and beyond, his revolutionary internationalism burns brighter than ever, exposing the ‘house Negroes’ who betray our struggle for a decolonized future. White supremacist, patriarchal capitalist settler colonial imperialism dehumanizes the world. This dehumanization has met fierce constant resistance over time.
Black Agenda Report

2 weeks ago | blackagendareport.com | Djibo Sobukwe |Roberto Sirvent |Abayomi Azikiwe |Austin Cole

This piece was originally published in Black Agenda Report in 2017. Malcolm X understood that “oppressed peoples must commit themselves to radical political struggle in order to advance a dignified approach to human rights.” What’s needed is a bottom-up mass movement for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, a “political project in the service of the oppressed” that “names the enemies of freedom: the Western white supremacist, colonial/capitalist patriarchy.” Social revolution is the only solution.
Burkina Faso Gains International Recognition for Revolutionary Stance Against Imperialism - Global Research

3 weeks ago | globalresearch.ca | Abayomi Azikiwe

On April 30, 2025, millions of people across Africa and the world held mass demonstrations in defense of the revolutionary leadership in the West African state of Burkina Faso under the leadership of the charismatic 37-year-old Capt. Ibrahim Traore. Since 2022 with the ascendancy of Traore to power, he has become a focal point for the emerging anti-imperialist and Pan-Africanist revival taking place on the African continent and throughout the Diaspora.
Burkina Faso Gains International Recognition for Revolutionary Stance Against Imperialism

3 weeks ago | newsghana.com.gh | Abayomi Azikiwe

A day of Pan-African solidarity and the visit to Moscow for the VE 80th anniversary raises the level of awareness of the development process now unfolding in the Sahel region of West AfricaGeopolitical AnalysisOn April 30, 2025, millions of people across Africa and the world held mass demonstrations in defense of the revolutionary leadership in the West African state of Burkina Faso under the leadership of the charismatic 37-year-old Capt. Ibrahim Traore.
Jury Acquits Memphis Cops on Murder Charges in the Killing of Tyre Nichols

3 weeks ago | newsghana.com.gh | Abayomi Azikiwe

Jurors were handpicked from faraway Chattanooga to reach a not-guilty verdict after millions witnessed the brutal beating and lack of medical attention leading to the death of the 29-year-old African American fatherRace RelationsYet another group of violent police officers have been acquitted in the death of an African American this time in the city of Memphis.