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CJSR FM88 www.cjsr.com 6 PM Mountain Time Beginning in January and finishing in July, Edmonton and the surrounding area hosted the shooting of Fear Itself , an A merican network summer horror anthology. Ernest Dickerson , who helmed Juice and Never Die Alone among many features, directed the episode “Something With Bite,” which debuts tomorrow night on NBC. Che ck your local listings. I’ve written a featu re story on film and television production in Alberta with Fear Itself at the centre for the issue of Unlimited magazine , s o check your newsstands in August, and the Bro-Log. Actor Wendell Pierce , best known as Detective Bunk Moreland on HBO’s The Wire , plays the world’s first veterinarian to become his own patient. I caught up with both gentlemen on and off-set during their shoot at the end of April and the beginning of May. In the seco nd half of the show, we'll go to South Africa , and a story of democratic s uccess being crushed by corporate power. Sou...

CJSR FM88 www.cjsr.com 6 PM Mountain Time Madaraka Nyerere , son of former Tanzanian p resident Julius Gadarabe Nyerere , discusses parallels between socialist development in Tanzania and Venezuela . And in the second half of the show, Damien Ugwu reveals the shocking extent of police torture in Nigeria . In the mid-20 th century during decolonisation and prior to the ascendancy of neo-colonialism, a number of leaders were at the forefront of classical Pan-Afrikanism. This g roup included Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana , Patrice Lumumba of Congo , Sekou Toure of Guinea , and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya , among others. In Tanzania ’s case, the leader was Julius Kambarage Nyerere, known as Mwalimu, Ki-Swahili for “teacher.” A committed Pan-Afrikanist, Nyerere helped launch the international Anti-Apartheid movement in 1960. Nyerere co-founded the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), becoming prime minister when Tanganyika became independent in 1961. Having forged the union of Tanga...