Nuits d’Afrique has brought the world home to Montreal

Tiken Jah Fakoly was an aspiring reggae star when he arrived from Ivory Coast to headline an outdoor concert at the Festival International Nuits d’Afrique in 2000. In a well-told story, he was bedridden in a Montreal hotel room recuperating from malaria for three days before he “willed” himself onstage at Place Émilie-Gamelin.
“That concert is the one that has most marked my career,” Fakoly told the Montreal Gazette in 2012.
And so a legend was born.
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