Prof. Igor Matonda (UNIKIN) at UGent for BantuFirst research stay

From March 24 until June 27 Prof. Igor Matonda (UNIKIN) is on a BantuFirst-funded research leave at Ghent University. Apart from consulting and exchanging with colleagues at the Department , the main goals of his stay are to

1. participate in BantuFirst workshop An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion: early settlers south of the Congo rainforest (March 29-30, 2023),
2. prepare the forthcoming joint volume An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion: Early Settlers South of the Congo Rainforest (Routledge) of which he is co-editor;
3. present online the talk titled Mapping the Archaeological Landscape of the Kwilu-Kasaï River Network, DRC at the 26th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists at Rice University.