Lamine Touré, director of Rambax MIT, leads drum practice in Grand Mbao NIKO ODHIAMBO ’25Touré, a Senegalese master drummer and an MIT lecturer in world music, cofounded Rambax in 2001 with Patricia Tang, an associate professor and ethnomusicologist who specializes in West African music. Today, Rambax is a credit-bearing class (21M.460) enrolling as many as 50 students a semester, and its ensemble’s performances draw audiences from MIT and the wider Boston community. “Rambax is unique,” says Touré, whose family of prominent griot percussionists had him drumming from the age of four. Poster for the tanibeer in Kaolack, Senegal, featuring Rambax MIT. As the MIT students walk in, wearing their bright yellow, green, and red knee-length dashikis, the crowd erupts into applause.