Why Drum Call?
Our Drum Call editor
published an e-magazine called ‘Alkebu-Lan Express’ for a number of years. Whilst this enjoyed moderate levels
of success and exposure it did suffer ‘one man band syndrome’ and needed fresh impetus.
Therefore, as the Editor and a Steering Group member of Nubian Link it
made sense to align the e-zine to the group, which in its formative years published a print version of Drum Call.
With due respect
to the fantastic and unrelenting work of The Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement (ARM), some people wrongly made a connection between
the e-zine Alkebu-Lan Express and ARM and I did not want to appear to be associating the e-zine with ARM who publish the brilliant
newspaper, The Whirlwind.
The drum call is synonymous in Afrikan culture with communication, culture, education, spirituality and music; and
these are the areas where Nubian Link wants to focus the content of the magazine. Moreover, or perhaps I should say unfortunately,
many (Afrikan people) find the name “Drum Call” more engaging than “Alkebu-Lan Express”; and as painful
as this truth may be, it does indicate the work required to re-instate a higher level of Afrikanity amongst the many and not
the few.
click here to download Kwabena's Black Vote Manifesto (200k PDF)
click here to download article titled "We are an Afrikan People...?"
click here to download the latest edition of Drumcall (2.8 Mb PDF)
click here to download previous edition of Drumcall (900k PDF)