Inkundla Ya Bantu was sympathetic to the oppressed Africans and was concerned with highlighting their plight.

[4] Inkundla reported articles on both communist and anti-communist Trade unions and was a passionate supporter of the marginalised.

"Inkundla sought to represent the subjugated African population in ordering a protest agenda that would unify the resistance movement, and it was a medium used by the Youth League to challenge the cautious and accommodationist ANC leadership"[5]Inkundla Ya Bantu's first editor was Phillip Goduka Katamzi.

It is generally agreed upon by most scholars that Philip Katamzi was the first editor and that he held this position for about a year.

Lembede was the mastermind behind ANCYL's political philosophy at the time, especially relating to African Nationalism.

According to Ntongela Masilela "Jordan Ngubane [in his capacity] as editor of Inkundla ya Bantu (People's Forum) in the 1940s articulat[ed] African nationalism as the 'natural ideology of the ANC' rather than Marxism"[11]