Peter Coutros and Igor Matonda on an archaeological fieldwork mission along the Kwilu-Kasai-Loange river network (DRC)

 

Peter Coutros (BantUGent) and Igor Matonda (UNIKIN), together with their team of local assistants including Isidore Nkanu, left early August from Kikwit (Kwilu Province, DRC) on a 6-week archaeological fieldwork mission along the Kwilu-Kasai-Loange river network as part of the BantuFirst project.  They will also explore the Kasai-Kamtsha confluence area in the proximity of which linguists of the BantuFirst team have situated the new West-Coastal Bantu homeland.