African Drum Hardcover Ruling:Lined this cap ensures durability and

this cap ensures durability and comfort

the vibrancy that Independence brought to the continent

An archival print of the Drum Magazine South Africa cover from January 1959

Crafted with utmost precision and attention to detail

An archival print of the Drum Magazine Nigeria cover from December 1969

African Drum Hardcover Ruling:Lined this cap ensures durability andThe first editions of the African Drum were distinctly different from the magazine that was to develop once Jim Bailey took over control of the publication from its founder Bob Crisp. With Anthony Sampson as editor, the magazine shifted from a well meaning, dry, liberal publication to become the thriving cultural mouthpiece for the newly urbanised black South African and later, as it spread through Anglophone Africa, it recorded in its unique fashion,