afribeat.com

open sourced content creation and distribution hub

Founded in 2000AD in Cape Town afribeat.com is a Pan African Literature Music and Heritage Resource. Afribeat.com has produced an extensive Pan African sound archive of 1000 recordings and released 14 Afrocentric works. afribeat is known as a home for the Story of Southern African Jazz and has united through the Dancing with the Diaspora programme hads united festivals throughout Southern Africa with international counterparts. afribeat.com offices are based in Johannesburg with close engagements in East London, Durban, Cape Town and Maputo.

afribeat.com is co-operative partner with the Sausage Film Company PTY LTD and Music and Heritage Education NPC and provides distribution and supply of these cultural heritage resources to libraries schools, community centres and education film and music festivals nationwide.

A multi-media music space. A creativity Hub for African wisdom keepers, holistic philosophers and all-round artists of the human experience. Cultural Memory Archives of the liberation artists, the protectors of Human dignity and freedom who used music as a weapon. Legacy Narratives of the unsung heroes of African music. Capacity building Resources resource contributing to the healthy spiritual development of Africa's people.

Founder of the ArchiveAfrica Depository of African Music and Heritage. A living archive of inter-generational know-how and skills transfer filling the gaps in cultural memory caused by apartheid. A central hub for the free association of artists, activists and archivists dedicated to restoring positive cultural memory and its role in the freedom and joy of today. afribeat preserves and promotes some of the key voices of freedom through music. Official depository for Story of South African Jazz Book Series, Jazz Against Apartheid and Imvuselelo archives. Collaborator with Baileys African history Archives, Melt2000 archives, House of Memory archives and International Library of African Music for the long term and sustainable archive platform for African music and heritage legacy.


LIVINGARCHIVE

All titles are printed at BK Book Binders in Durban and published by afribeat.com. In terms of the Legal Deposit Act 54 of 1997 in my capacity as author of the works published on afribeat.com all titles are submitted to the National Libraries of South Africa, Parliamentary Information Centre and the National Film Video and Sound Archives.

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Sole Proprietor

Struan Douglas
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Business

Sausage Film Company PTY LTD
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Community

Music and Heritage Education NPC

INNOVATION SKILLS


Music driven communities for a better world and stronger humanity.


online distribution
audience development
community engagement
physical distribution
self-publishing
live performances

Founded 01/04/2000

With over 20 years of experience as a music journalist travelling the world with music, afribeat.com is a proud voice for the culture heritage creativity and philosophy of Africa.

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Contributions to Business Day Newspaper

From 2017 - current multiple articles on South African music, arts, culture the creative economy, South African arts governance and best practice, and Pan African thought leaders, written by Struan Douglas are contribued to the excellent Business Day Newspaper in South Africa in the arts, lifestyle, news and opinion sections.

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Contributions to Sawubona in-flight magazines

From 1999 - current, the length and breadth of this magnificent African continent and in particular the thrilling cultural and tourism activities and events of Southern Africa have been written up and documented by Struan Douglas for publication in South Africa's most important travel magazine, South African Airways's Sawubona Inflight Magazine.

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Contributions to Independent Newspapers

From 1999 - current, the emergence of the Cape Town cultural and creative scene, the documenting of Pan African thought leaders and the growth of the Pan african cultural sector were covered in a number of articles written by Struan Douglas across some of the Independent Newspapers fantastic titles including Cape Times, Sunday Independent and African Independent.

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Ad Hoc Magazine contributions

From beginning as a columnist for Big Issue Magazine in 1999, Struan Douglas has covered the cultural, natural and musical rennaisance in Africa for magazines all around the world such as Destinations and Downbeat in the USA, Pacific in Australia, New Africa Magazine, Songlines and Travel Africa in the UK, Skylife and Mini International in the rest of Europe and a number of high quality corporate magazines in South Africa.

Graham Michael Lesch's Shadows of Justice

Born in 1936 Graham fought for human rights from all angles. He saw himself as a white man in Africa, here to set right the wrongs of his tribal line. He shared a deep spirituality with the ancestral heritage of the African continent and thanked the great architect of Africa for his grace. He found no greater enemy than South Africa's apartheid government. From 1952 – 1974 he was labeled a notorious criminal and incarcerated in many jails from which he escaped. In jail he was starved and tortured, out of jail he was hunted. He fled South Africa in 1969 by foot in a futile attempt to join the P.A.C. in Tanzania. On learning to read he overcame his dyslexia and by swallowing his bed springs freed himself from jail. In 1975 he married Jenny Clark. Jenny had polio as a child and is 95% physically disabled. Graham was never involved in any political party and fought for freedom, justice and equality from the unwavering truths of his heart.

Jim Bailey's Poetry

Jim Bailey is the founder of Baileys African History Archives. He brought Drum magazine out in the 1950s. Drum was great mover on the African continent. It was a complet rol ecall of the creative geniuses of an era of South African history and heritage, whilst contributing to Africa's liberation march during the 1960's. Bailey was a personal friend and benefactor of a number of African leaders. They included Jomo Kenyata and Tom Mboya (Kenya), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (Nigeria), Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu (South Africa). These memoirs and others are documented in the posthumous poetry collection, 'Airborne to Africa'.

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