**UPDATE: Bantu 8 conference to be held online.**

The postponed Bantu 8 conference will be held entirely ONLINE. While we recognise that this will change the nature of the conference and our interaction, we also hope that this might enable a wider range of attendees, particularly those who might otherwise be unable to travel to the conference in person.

The conference will be held from 2-4 June 2021.

We are very pleased that our excellent line-up of invited speakers have agreed to speak in the online version of the conference and can confirm these as:

Professor Laura J. Downing (University of Gothenburg)

Dr Saudah Namyalo (Makerere University)

Dr Brent Henderson (University of Florida)

Registration details can be found on the 'practical information' tab.

Nancy, Hannah, Kyle

Bantu 8 organising team, University of Essex

If you have any questions please get in touch via the conference email address : bantu8[at]essex.ac.uk