James Richard Abe "Jim" Bailey, CBE, DFC (23 October 1919 – 29 February 2000) was an Anglo-South African World War II fighter pilot, writer, poet and publisher.
[4] In 1951, he provided financial backing to Bob Crisp to start a magazine called African Drum based in Cape Town, South Africa, and aimed at a Black readership, but as readership dropped, Bailey took full control.
The monthly magazine was renamed to simply Drum and the head office moved to Johannesburg.
[2] Bailey also founded in 1955 the Golden City Post,[2][5] the country's first black Sunday tabloid.
[6] Bailey's 1973 book The God-Kings and the Titans: The New World Ascendancy in Ancient Times was a controversial work on pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, which claimed that thousands of years before Columbus Mediterranean sea voyagers among other peoples from the Old World landed on both the Atlantic and Pacific shores of America.