Editing Djembe (section)

===Emigration===
In the United States, Ladji Camara, a member of Ballets Africains in the 1950s, started teaching djembe in the 1960s and continued to teach into the 1990s. Camara performed extensively with [[Babatunde Olatunji]] during the 1970s, greatly raising awareness of the instrument in the US.<ref name="Camara">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://africanmusic.org/artists/ladji.html |title=Papa Ladji Camara |first=Andy |last=Wassserman |encyclopedia=The African Music Encyclopedia: Music from Africa and the African Diaspora |access-date=January 13, 2012 |year=1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112000208/http://africanmusic.org/artists/ladji.html |archive-date=January 12, 2012 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>

After the death of Sekou Touré in 1984, funding for the ballets dried up and a number of djembefolas (who were never paid well by the ballets<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rare German Radio Interviews with Famoudou Konate |journal=Percussive Notes |volume=39 |issue=6 |date=December 2001 |editor-first=Lilian |editor-last=Friedberg |url=http://chidjembe.com/fkusaradio.html |access-date=January 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413123345/http://chidjembe.com/fkusaradio.html |archive-date=April 13, 2012 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>) emigrated and made regular teaching and performance appearances in the west, including [[Mamady Keïta]] (Belgium, US), [[Famoudou Konaté]] (Germany), and Epizo Bangoura (France, US, and Australia).<ref name="Epizo">{{cite web |url=http://epizob.com/e/biography.html |access-date=January 13, 2012 |title=Who is Epizo Bangoura? |work=Epizo Bangoura official website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234605/http://epizob.com/e/biography.html |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref><ref name="Files">{{cite thesis |first=Frederick Rimes |last=Files |title=Hairy drums, live sampling: Ethos Percussion Group commissions of 2004 and their "extra-conservatory" elements |url=http://gradworks.umi.com/34/99/3499233.html |access-date=July 28, 2013 |publisher=City University of New York |year=2012 |degree=Ph.D. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052603/http://gradworks.umi.com/34/99/3499233.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref> A number of other djembefolas—M'bemba Bangoura, [[Abdoulaye Diakité]], [[Bolokada Conde]], Mohamed "Bangouraké" Bangoura, and Babara Bangoura, among others—followed their example, establishing a sizeable population of expatriate performers and teachers in many Western countries.