African Drum Poster A2 Size:A2 South Africa

South Africa

An archival print of the Drum Magazine South Africa cover from February 1961

in the specially constructed court at the Drill Hall

An archival print of the Drum Magazine South Africa cover from October 1961

African Drum Poster A2 Size:A2 South AfricaThe 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 of the newly urbanized black South African and later as it spread through a Anglophone Africa, it recorded in its unique fashion