January-December 1955.

Including: 'How red is Congress', Luthuli replies; Regina 'Linda Malinga' Brooks; Israel Alexander; Mopeli-Paulus continued; Western Areas removals; 'The Suitcase' short story; New faces in Congress; labour conditions on Snyman's Farm; DRUM staff at the office; Enoch Nhlapo; Salot family; Torch gang; King Masinga and South African radio; 'The Departure' by Peter Clarke, winner of the 3rd DRUM Short Story contest; Capricorn movement; 'How yellow is Congress', Tambo replies; South Africa's colour bar in sports; GMM Pemba; SM Mofokeng, first African PhD at University of Witwatersrand; Chief Buthelezi in Johannesburg; Bantu Education Act; Fort Hare University; Chops No. 1; Seretse Khama; Chetty murder; Congress of the People at Kliptown; Don Mtimkulu; John Shembe; Coloureds race classification; Canada Lee; Elifasi "Axe-killer" Msomi; bare fist fights; Isaac Makau; Father Trevor Huddleston (December); Peter Abrahams; ANC Bloemfontein conference.

January-December 1959 (February and March missing).

Including: All-African People's Conference; Basuto self-rule; Alan Paton; story of Ezekiel "King Kong" Dhlamini, heavy weight boxer from Durban, who inspired the musical 'King Kong' later in the year; SA Cricket West Indies tour; Beer halls; Josias Madzunya, with photos by Peter Magubane, winning the Best South African Pictures of the Year Exhibition (April); Payroll robbers; Jomo Kenyatta; Robert Sobukwe; photo of boy at piano, by Peter Magubane, winning third place in the Feature Section of the Best South African Pictures award; Chief Luthuli visiting Cape Town, and banned on his farm; Durban unemployed; death of Fort Hare University Colleage; Witchcraft; African church leaders conference, Vereeniging; The Fort prison, Johannesburg; Coloured People's Organisation, and Coloured people; Joas 'Kangaroo' Maoto vs. Enoch Nhlapo; typhoid epidemic; series about history of Indians in South Africa; riots in Cato Manor; theater play 'Shebeen'; Mahatma Gandhi; Hastings Banda; Seretse Khama; Tribute to DDT Jabavu; Coronation of Chief Edward Patric Lebone Molotlegi of the Bafokeng; Nyasaland prison camp; John Mehegan in South Africa; Miriam Makeba; musical 'King Kong'; Sophiatown forced removals; 'My idea of Africa in 1973' by Mangaliso Sobukwe; women of Ixopo; banishment; Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim); Professor ZK Matthews; series about SA Indian personalities.

January-December 1960 (February, June, November missing).

Including: Man of Africa 1959; Phatha-Phatha; the Spoilers vs. the Msomis; Coalbrook disaster; Cato Manor killings; Steve Kalamazoo Mokone; soccer; Ben Baartman banished; Unity Movement; Coloured political parties; Basuto Royal family; the Africanists, Potlako Leballo, Mangaliso Sobukwe; series about Miriam Makeba's life story; Soorabjee Rustomjee; Reg September, Ebrahim Desai; David Pratt shooting Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd; Sharpeville funerals, with main report in October issue; musical 'Mkhumbane'; child labour; political refugees in Basutoland; Pondoland; wages; Congo Independence Day; series about Indian women; Bantustans; people in showbiz; John Dunn; Katanga; Patrice Lumumba; Joas 'Kangaroo' Maoto; Louis Armstrong in Kenya; Joshua Nkomo.

January-December 1952, changing from "The African Drum" in the logo of the African map until August, to DRUM and the logo of the roaring lion from September onwards.

Including: Phokeng Centenary village; AC Jordan; continuation of 'Cry the beloved country; District Six; African National Congres vs all-African Convention; Bethal farms; Gerard Sekoto; AB Xuma on Western Areas removals and Christ the King Sophiatown; ritual murder; Dr J Moroka; Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II; Manilal Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi; The Russians gang; the tot system; Clements Kadalie; Peter Abrahams on Congress; Dr Vilakazi; playing white; Prof ZK MAtthews; "We Defy" Statement by Nelson Mandela (September) and the Defiance campaign; dagga; Fahfee; horse betting; Sheriff Khan; AW Champion; Supreme Council of Bantu Federation; shebeens; Mau Mau uprising.

January-December 1957 (Please note the mistake in the cover pages of August and September).

Including: Dolly Rathebe series; Treason trial arrests; James John Selous, Coloured son of Frederick Courtney Selous; Victor Mkize; Treason Trial with photos of all the accused (February); Henry Nxumalo, after his death in December 1956, and his last report on Durban's gangs; Crimson League gang; child labour on sugar farms; political situation in South Africa; Cape Malay wedding; 'Lesane' by Ezekiel Mphahlele; Rev. ZR Mahabane; Ghana's independence on 6 March; Miriam Makeba cover story; Mau Mau uprising; Jazz series; 'In the Gold Mines' poem by Wallet Vilakazi; Julius Nyerere and Tanzania; Treason Trial proceeds; Dr. Monty Naicker; Dorian hats; train terror; Dube Hostel; Chief Albert Luthuli; Absolam Vilakazi; Treason trial Jazz; Sophiatown removals.

February-December 1958 (January and July missing; there seems to be 2 different issues for May.

Including: Illicit brewing in shebeens; Kippy Moeketsi; Africanists in Congress; Famo dance; farm workers in Weenen; Penny-whistle business; Amato factory riots, Benoni; pass refugees crossing from Zeerust into Bechuanaland; Apartheid public signage; Central African Federation; Chief Luthuli inverview; Sculptor Selby Mvusi; accused arriving at Treason Trial at the Synagogue in Pretoria; 'The Family of Man' photographic show; Basutos calling for home rule; Zoo Lake, Johannesburg; Bergville dagga riots; Campaign against women carrying passes; Southern Rhodesia African National Congress; Treason Trial halts; Robert Sobukwe; Indian weddings; Potlako Leballo.

February-November 1961 (January, June, July, December missing).

Including: Visit by Dag Hammarskjoeld, Secretary General of the United Nations; Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethopia; Non-White soccer break-up; King Kong musical leaving for London; Ramakrishna movement; series about life story of Philip Kgosana; Shaik Mahomed "Sharkey"; Cato Manor riots; Coloured political parties; United Front demonstrations against Prime Minister Verwoerd in London; South Africa leaving the Commonwealth; Lutchmi Chetty murder case; General Delgado interview; tribute to Patrice Lumumba; Shadrack Matthews of the Msomi gang; end of Treason Trial; New Jerusalem Apostolic Church; Cape jazz; 'Durango Kid' Meshack Makhetha; All-In Africa conference in Maritzburg; referendum in Southern Rhodesia; series about Sofasonke movement, by James Mpanza; South-West Africa; Coloured Convention; Sherief Khan; Durban Canvas Factory payroll robbery; Nico Loubscher; Glendale Sugar Mill murder; DRUM interview with Yuri Gagarin; death of David Pratt; Emelia Ma-Ntsebo Seeiso of Basutoland; Krishna Shah.

DRUM publication for the West African readership, 1954-1962, incomplete, 9 files.