ALT Coherent Digital & Sabinet today announced that they have located issues of DRUM magazine long thought to be missing. The company will add them to the Black South African Magazines online collection, creating the only digitized full run of DRUM. Black South African Magazines is a rare digital collection of magazines that were created by Black Africans for Black Africans during the 20th century. The publications date from 1937-1973. It’s part of Coherent Digital’s Africa Commons, an effort to preserve & disseminate Africa’s endangered cultural heritage. DRUM has particular historical significance within the overall collection. Once the most widely read magazine in Africa (distributed in eight African countries), its journalists influenced political outcomes & are credited with changing the way Black South Africans were represented in society. It chronicled township life under apartheid from a Black perspective, covering the Defiance Campaign, the massacre at Sharpeville and more.

ALT Both images show issues of DRUM, and how fragile they are. Cartoon images and text columns can be seen on the first one, while the second shoes the fraying edges of other issues.

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