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History of ‘Drum magazine’

The true reach of the magazine surpassed merely “hundreds” of people, and became the most widely read magazine in Africa at the time. A 1959 TIME article entitled “Drum Beat in Africa” stated that 240,000 copies of Drum were distributed across Africa, to countries like Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The magazine was so popular in fact, that illiterate people allegedly paid educated friends to read them the magazine ...read more