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The 38th Nuits d’Afrique festival takes over the downtown core until July 21. The Gazette’s T’Cha Dunlevy offers his picks for best shows for you to catch. See our top 10 can’t miss shows of this festival here.

Friday, July 19

Sofaz (8 p.m., TD–Radio-Canada Stage, free). Featuring members from L’Île de la Réunion, Morocco, Burkina Faso and France, this globe- and groove-trotting group is a convergence point for guitar, djembe, guembri, synths and drums to swirl into trance-inducing, body-moving jams that on a hot summer night should prove impossible to resist. And really, why would you try?

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