Born in Mali, West Africa, and a member of the Minianka (Bamana) tribe, Yaya Diallo was raised in a culture that works, worships, lives, and breathes to the beat of the drum. The drum is the focal point of Yaya's life story and his link -- through the universal medium of music -- with the Western world. "The Healing Drum" traces Yaya's extraordinary cultural legacy, exploring the Minianka view of the human being and the cosmos relative to daily work, celebration, herbal medicine, dance, trance,