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1. Nigeria - Unquestionably, it was the first recording to popularize African music in the west,[3] becoming immensely successful and selling over five million copies.

2. Ghana - best known as the inventor of Afro-jazz — "the reuniting of African-American jazz with its African roots"

3. Benin - an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, whose pitch can be regulated to mimic human speech. It has two drumheads connected by leather tension cords, which allow the player to modulate the pitch of the drum by squeezing the cords between their arm and body.

4. Nigeria - talking drums setting the beat for an ensemble

5. Ghana - Rare album - Reebop played with Randy Weston, Traffic, Steve Winwood and Can

6. Mali

7. Ghana - one of the first native African musicians to bring the fusion of traditional folk music and Western pop music known as worldbeat to Europe and then to the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the late 1970s.

8. South Africa - known as "The Thunder from Down Under", is a South African session drummer, perhaps best-known as the drummer in David Letterman's house band led by Paul Shaffer.

9. Nigeria - Dabi Debo Ayanlola Kanyinsola, the world most famous talking drummer today, he speaks 10 languages

10. Tony Allen & Ginger Baker

11. Guinea - Master of the djembe - a rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands, originally from West Africa. translates to "everyone gather together in peace" and defines the drum's purpose

12. Senegal - Senegalese drummer, modern master of sabar traditional drum, from Senegal that iis played with one hand and a stick

13. Kasiva Mutua Female drummer - she is one of the top drummers in Kenya. Mutua is currently based in Nairobi.

15. South Africa - Julien Bahula drummer