Chinazor Onianwah
In 2000, I launched a weekly 30 minutes radio show titled EMERGING MARKETS REPORTS, analyzing the growing African economy before the US media caught on to it. The program was launched and broadcast live on a radio station I partnered with and it was streamed live on the internet. I’m proud to say I was a member of an innovative group of technologists who synergized the media and IT to a fruitful result. My program featured members of the African diplomatic corps. I also made the acquaintance of a little known Saudi Arabia ambassador to the US, Prince Bandir, he soon became a larger than life figure during the Iraqi war after 911. However, a few months after we took off, the radio station I partnered with was acquired by a conglomerate- Clear Chanel Communications. They changed the format of their stations to all talk, paving the way for Rush Limbaugh to broadcast hate and revive the KKK, which came to be known as the Tea Party. Little did they know that the first American to die during the Boston Tea Party revolt in 1770, the ignition for the revolutionary war, was the son of an enslaved African and a Native American mother, Crispus Attucks.
