Suncaru Jara's teacher was Chebleni Traore, whose teacher was Numuni Traore, the first djembe master to bring the djembe out of Bamana secrecy, thus igniting the diaspora of the djembe.

A double military coup set off a period of great political instability that lasted until 1932.

Charles, faced with abdication, staged a coup d ' état, and issued his notorious July Ordinances, touching off the July Revolution which ended with Louis-Philippe becoming king.

* 1980 – The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo

Their attack was halted when German citizens who were loyal to the state went on strike, cutting off many services and making daily life so problematic that the coup was called off.

According to Daum, after this first successful delivery, " Kennedy, who fiddles a bit with his suit jacket, is grinning like a boy who has just pulled off a coup.

On 27 September 1991, as the Soviet Union was dissolving after the August 1991 Soviet coup d ' état attempt, President George H. W. Bush began taking SAC bomber and associated aerial refuelling aircraft off continuous nuclear alert.

Assisted by several Georgian aristocrats anxious to check Tamar ’ s growing power, Yuri made two attempts at coup, but failed and went off to obscurity after 1191.

In an era when democratic governments formed in the aftermath of the First World War were moving away from democracy and towards dictatorships, the Free State under Cosgrave remained unambiguously democratic, a fact shown by his handing over of power to his one-time friend, then rival, Éamon de Valera, when de Valera's Fianna Fáil won the 1932 general election, in the process killing off talk within the Irish Army of staging a coup to keep Cosgrave in power and de Valera out of it.

Khánh overthrew Minh and his colleagues on 30 January 1964, in a bloodless coup, completely catching the MRC off guard.

At an official dinner, he said, " Colonel Bokassa only wants to collect medals and he is too stupid to pull off a coup d ' état ".

In that battle, Alcibiades ( who had been recalled from exile by the fleet at Samos shortly after the coup ) led a decoy force that drew the Spartan fleet out into open water, while Thrasybulus and Theramenes, each commanding an independent squadron, cut off the Spartans ' retreat.

In response, Long ordered state National Guard troops to surround the State Capitol and fended off Cyr's proposed " coup d ' état ".

A coup in 658 threw off Northumbrian overlordship and established Wulfhere as king.

The bank established a position as a leading European underwriter of Eurobonds and pulled off a major coup in 1985 by pricing a large bond offering for Nestlé, Rockwell, IBM, and Mobil at below market rates.

Waddington pulled off a significant coup by enticing Stanley Matthews – then 46 years old – back to the club, 14 years after he had departed.

Immediately after Kong Le's coup, Thailand began an embargo via land blockade, cutting off the main source of imported goods for Vientiane.

After reaching the 1973 ABA Playoffs in their inaugural season, the Q's seemingly pulled off a coup by paying the Hall of Fame center Wilt Chamberlain $ 600, 000 to play and coach in 1973-74.

The coup was also strategically planned for this date because it was the day before Friday, the Muslim day of worship, and most military commanders and government workers were off duty.

A copy is given to Scott and the other officers in on the plot, who have no choice but to resign and call off the coup.

The Old French Continuation of William of Tyre ( the so-called Chronicle of Ernoul ) claimed that Sibylla had been infatuated with Balian's older brother Baldwin of Ibelin, a widower over twice her age, but this is doubtful ; instead, it seems that Raymond of Tripoli attempted a coup to marry her off to him to strengthen the position of his faction ; however, this legend seems to have been behind the film's creation of a romance between Sibylla and a member of the Ibelin family.

On July 15, 1974 Ioannides took by surprise Makarios and organised a coup d ' etat in Nicosia at 8. 15 in the morning when Makarios ' forces were off guard.

Katherine went on to stage a coup against her younger sister, Yvonne Steiner-Davion and took control of the former Federated Suns half of the Commonwealth while Victor was off fighting Clan Smoke Jaguar.

The coup was first prepared not by Napoleon, but by the Abbé Sieyès, then one of the five Directors, attempting to head off a return to Jacobinism.

Although no military coups occurred during the 67 years of the Brazilian Empire, the Republican period experienced 4 military coup d ' états in the 75 years between 1889 and 1964.

In addition, the CIA's website reports that the agency aided three different Chilean opposition groups during that time period and " sought to instigate a coup to prevent Allende from taking office ".

After Napoleon Bonaparte in November 1799 staged a coup against the Directory government, the French Republic adopted a constitution, which conferred executive powers upon three Consuls, elected for a period of ten years.

During this period, crises like the potential " Boulangist " coup d ' état ( 1889 ) showed the fragility of the republic.

After a long period of one-party rule, a 1991 coup led to the writing of a new constitution and the establishment of Mali as a democratic, multi-party state.

Pakistan declared itself an Islamic republic on adoption of a constitution in 1956, but the civilian rule was stalled by the 1958 military coup d ' etat by Ayub Khan, who ruled during a period of internal instability and a second war with India in 1965.

The continued internal struggle in the Bolshevik party culminated in the Great Purge, a period of mass repressions in 1937 – 38, in which hundreds of thousands of people were executed, including original party members and military leaders convicted in coup d ' état plots.

Although this sometimes resulted in inefficient command according to some American historians, the Party leadership considered political control over the military absolutely necessary, as the Army relied more and more on officers from the pre-revolutionary Imperial period and understandably feared a military coup.

In October 1991, during the " honeymoon " period after his resistance to the Soviet coup, Yeltsin convinced the legislature to grant him special executive ( and legislative ) powers for one year so that he might implement his economic reforms.

The repression accelerated in June and July 1794, a period called " la Grande Terreur " ( the Great Terror ), and ended in the coup of 9 Thermidor Year II ( 27 July 1794 ), leading to the Thermidorian Reaction, in which several protagonists of the Reign of Terror were executed, including Saint-Just and Robespierre.

Following the coup, General Amin al-Hafiz discharged many ranking Sunni officers, thereby, Stratfor says, ' providing openings for hundreds of Alawites to fill top-tier military positions during the 1963-1965 period on the grounds of being opposed to Arab unity.

In November 1947, a short democratic period of Thailand was ended by a 2490 military coup.

As the capital of an Axis country and a major transit point for Axis troops en route to the Eastern Front, Bucharest suffered heavy damage during World War II due to Allied bombings, and, on 23 August 1944, was the site of the royal coup which brought Romania into the Allied camp, suffering a short period of Luftwaffe bombings as well as a failed attempt by German troops to take the city by force.

After the communist coup in 1948, the new regime started to arrange purges and repress all forms of disagreement with the official ideology, and continued to do so for the next four decades, with the second wave of purges during the " normalization " period in the beginning of the 1970s.

In these he presented the strategy of the so-called Historic Compromise, a proposed coalition between the Italian Communist Party and the Christian Democrats to grant Italy a period of political stability, at a time of severe economic crisis and in a context in which some forces were allegedly manoeuvering for a coup d ' état in Italy.

When a military coup overthrew Bosch, the country began a tumultuous period which resulted in the civil war of April 24, 1965.

The period known as the French Consulate began with the coup of 18 Brumaire in 1799.

During the negotiating period the French had to crush a royalist coup in September.

The Age of Liberty () is the half century long period of parliamentarianism and increasing civil rights in Sweden, beginning with Charles XII's death in 1718 and ending with Gustav III's coup d ' état in 1772.

After the military coup at Lisbon in April 25, 1974, the power was taken by a military junta, the National Salvation Junta, and Portugal went through a turbulent period, commonly called the Continuing Revolutionary Process ( Portuguese: Processo Revolucionário em Curso, or PREC ) that lasted until 25 November 1975, the day of a pro-communist coup followed by a successful counter-coup by pro-democracy moderates, marked by constant friction between liberal-democratic forces and leftist / communist political parties.

This period ended with a military coup that placed Getúlio Vargas, a civilian, in the presidency ; Vargas remained as dictator until 1945.

During the Meiji period ( 1868 – 1912 ), after a coup in 1868, Japan abandoned its feudal system and opened up to Western modernism.