A West African banjo-like akonting instrument on display in Spain’s the Casa Museo del Timple, Lanzarote.CREDIT: own work/Creative Commons “Same thing with the fiddle,” he continued.

Drum was considered to be the first African lifestyle magazine with a readership of 40,000 in its 1950s heyday. It was first printed in South Africa in 1951 and became a voice of resistance during ...