Drum
Subtitle: A venture into the new Africa
By: Anthony Sampson.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Collins
Published: 1956
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Sampson, Anthony; Drum (Johannesburg, South Africa); African magazine; Journalists -- South Africa -- Biography; Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography; South Africa -- Race relations
First sentence: I opened a telegram in London, on Good Friday, 1951: ARE YOU IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE JOB NEW NEGRO PERIODICAL IN CAPE TOWN FIFTY POUNDS MONTH SAY YES JIM BAILEY
Description: From the Preface: In this book I have given some account of the odd beginnings of an African magazine in South Africa called Drum, of which I was editor for three and a half years. I have tried to show something of the view of South Africa and its problems which I gained from the standpoint of my unusual job, of being white editor of a black paper, and how, in the course of our venture, my knowledge of urban Africans deepened, and I was able to penetrate behind the high wall of apartheid that runs through South African life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: label: 1
pagenum: 11
title: White Hand; label: 2
pagenum: 24
title: Black Hand; label: 3
pagenum: 37
title: House of God; label: 4
pagenum: 55
title: Cheeky Karrirs; label: 5
pagenum: 67
title: Back o' the Moon; label: 6
pagenum: 81
title: Two Worlds; label: 7
pagenum: 96
title: Live fast, die young; label: 8
pagenum: 114
title: Dear readers; label: 9
pagenum: 127
title: Come back Africa; label: 10
pagenum: 143
title: House of truth; label: 11
pagenum: 156
title: Whites; label: 12
pagenum: 163
title: Dauntless one; label: 13
pagenum: 175
title: Naked man; label: 14
pagenum: 185
title: Mr Drum goes to jail; label: 15
pagenum: 198
title: Off whites; label: 16
pagenum: 213
title: Taboo; label: 17
pagenum: 228
title: We won't move; label: 18
pagenum: 240
title: Harmonie; label: Postscript
pagenum: 250
title: Africans in towns