“E somah, n’toh lé Fatoumata Diarra”; “Good morning, my name is Fatoumata Diarra”. That was the first thing I said to the members of Nimbaya, the first female drumming group from my country, Guinea. These women represented a revolution where they had to defy a thousand year tradition, which only allowed men to drum. I was ecstatic, yet nervous to host the group. As the only student at Phillips Academy from Guinea, I was asked to be the interpreter...