When K'Naan Warsame was 11, he found what he thought was a rotten and strangely skewered potato. He pulled out the pin, threw the 'potato' and blew up half his school.
A place to buy decent djembes, goatskins, shells, and a fine metal gripper-puller thingie that saves your hands when pulling ropes on your "mali weave." Some good links, too.