Nuits d'Afrique Festival Photos

<p>Montreal's Nuits d'Afrique Festival has been animating this great international city since July 12, 2022, and continues through July 24. This is the festival's 36th year, and Afropop Worldwide has a special relationship with the festival, in part because we are almost the same age (We're about to turn 35), but more importantly because we share the same focus: The music of Africa and the diaspora.</p> <p>The Afropop team recently returned from five days at the festival and we're preparing a full-hour program of interviews and live recordings for August.</p> <p>As a tease, here are some choice images of the acts we caught, all of whom will be featured on that upcoming program. </p> <p><em>All photos by Banning Eyre for Afropop.org. </em></p>

La Nuit de Kora: Madou Sidiki Diabaté, Djely Mori Tounkara

Wesli

Moktar Gania & Gnawa Soul

Derek Gripper and Zal Sissokho, with Djely Tapa

Sophie Lukacs

Femi Kuti and Positive Force, with Made Kuti

Diogo Ramos & Latin Groove (Brazil)

Kabey Konate & Farafina Roots (Burkina Faso)

EMDE (Mali)