African Drum Hardcover 1982 An archival print of the

An archival print of the Drum Magazine South Africa cover from December 1969

An archival print of the Drum Magazine South Africa cover from May 1952

The 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 it’s founder Bob Crisp

An archival print of the Drum Magazine Nigeria cover from December 1972

Double-stitched sleeve detail

African Drum Hardcover 1982 An archival print of theThe 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,