Nagenda International Academy of Art and Design (NIAAD) is a tertiary Institution of Art and Design. It was founded in 2009 by Dr. Kizito Maria Kasule as a self-sustaining Institution where Youth can hone their creative and entrepreneurial skills. It is both a knowledge incubation and skill-based academy. NIAAD seeks to address the multifaceted concerns, needs and interests of many artistically talented youth, Performing Artists, Researchers, disadvantaged youth and women. They also Organised the Affirmative Art tour especially cater for the needs of youth in East Africa. It gives youth the opportunity to explore what they want with life and how to achieve it. Affirmative Art has a decade of experience in increasing awareness and empowering dreams. Besides offering formal education, the Institution in partnership with the local communities initiates and develops sustainable community-based programs that aim at reducing poverty and hardship. NIAAD focuses on capacity development of the youth and women, emphasizing vocational skills using the Arts to unlock their creative capacity. Each week NIAAD students spend two hours involved in teaching and doing public art works for disadvantaged communities. The Drum Sound is both a signal for Joy but also and Entertainment, it is the sound in most African Societies that would either gesture joy or happiness. This is a culture than cannot be separated from traditional songs, poems and dances. We all must preserve the African drum sound.