On June 6-7 Koen Bostoen and Sara Pacchiarotti attended the “Peopling History of Africa: A Multidisciplinary Perspective” conference in Geneva (Switzerland). They presented together the invited talk The first Bantu speakers south of the Equatorial Rainforest: preliminary new evidence from historical linguistics and archaeology, including preliminary results from the linguistic and archaeological research carried out so far within the BantuFirst project. This conference was organized by Anne Mayor (Anthropology Unit) and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas (Department of Genetics and Evolution) of the University of Geneva and aimed at gathering a number of outstanding international researchers active in different fields in order to present a comprehensive view of our present knowledge about the peopling of Africa.