On May 22-25 Koen Bostoen, Bernard Clist and Sara Pacchiarotti participated in the Conference “Africa, the cradle of human diversity: Joining cultural and biological approaches to uncover African diversity” in Uppsala (Sweden). The conference was organized by Carina Schlebusch (Associate Professor and leader of the Schlebusch, Human Evolution Program, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University) and her team members Cesar Fortes-Lima (Postdoctoral researcher in Population Genetics), Ezekia Mtetwa (Researcher in Archaeogenomics) and Cécile Jolly (Research Engineer). Koen Bostoen presented the invited talk The first Bantu speakers south of the Central-African rainforest: New insights from historical linguistics and archaeology, which included results obtained within linguistics and archaeology after the first year of the BantuFirst project. Bernard Clist presented the invited talk West-Central African diversity from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, continuities and transitions during the last 10,000 years. Before the very start of the conference, Sara Pacchiarotti presented the invited talk Untangling the West-Coastal Bantu Mess: Identification, Geography and Phylogeny of the Bantu B50-80 Languages during a Mini-Workshop on African Linguistics. The conference was also an opportunity to coordinate imminent linguistic fieldwork with genetic sampling in the DRC. If all goes well, the latter will be conducted by Ezekia Mtetwa and Cécile Jolly.