 He is a director for the charity organization, the Oroko Fund, and featured instructor for the African Village Drum Adventure in Guinea.Mamady Kourouma's nickname, “Wadaba”, means Great Panther, and comes from the people of his motherland, who say his sound on the djembe drum has the power of a wild cat's scream.Born in the Malinke blacksmith/drummer family lineage, in the Sankaran region of northern Guinea, West Africa, Kourouma was given a tiny djembe when he was eight years old.