Africa Now! is a progressive weekly radio show that focuses on issues concerning the African world. It is based in Washington, D.C.^[1] The program airs on WPFW(89.3) radio, part of the Pacifica Radio network, in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It also airs nationally and internationally online. It is listener supported.^[2]

Africa Now! was founded on Pacifica Radio station in Washington, D.C. It brings together scholars, activists, authors, NGOs, and politicians to engage in topics centered on the African world.

• Mwiza Munthali, activist (2009 – current)^[3]

• Dr. Molefi Asante, African American scholar, historian, and philosopher
• Karen Bass, U.S. Representative for California's 33rd congressional district.
• Dr. Horace G. Campbell, Jamaican-born, Noted international peace and justice scholar and Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University
• Dr. Clayborne Carson, African-American professor of history at Stanford University, and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
• Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, African-American academic, and Director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art^[4]
• Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American author
• Walter Fauntroy, American pastor, civil rights activist and politician
• Haile Gerima Ethiopian-born independent filmmaker, scholar, and activist
• Danny Glover, American actor/activist
• Dr. Sylvia Hill, African-American scholar, activist
• Ahmed Kathrada, South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist
• Dr. Clarence Lusane, African-American scholar/activist
• Firoze Manji, Kenyan-born author, publisher
• Gay McDougal, UN rapporteur on minority rights and law professor.
• Dr. Ronald Walters, leading African-American scholar/activist

• Africa Now! website
• WPFW
• TransAfrica Forum