Remembering Your Ancestral Fire: A Bi-racial Man's Unlikely Journey of Self-Discovery, Heeding the Call of the Djembe

This book is not for musicians or African drumming enthusiasts - it is for all humans! It is a collage of my experiences learning, playing, and teaching djembe, a goblet-shaped West African drum. It is not chronological, but it is thematic, focusing on various aspects of my life, including my trips to Guinea in West Africa and other places around the world to learn and share djembe, “Africanesque” folktales I have written, and hopefully, a few kernels of wisdom about music and life that wil...