This summer, the Department of Linguistics and the African Studies Group, University of Hong Kong are, once again, organizing a one-month course and workshop in African Studies (including African languages, music and other cultural issues).The primary objective of this summer course and workshop is to create an explicit awareness of African language studies as the basis of cutting-edge theoretical developments in linguistics through a series of intensive workshops, advanced linguistic courses, and language proficiency courses in selected African languages. Participation in the summer course and workshop will lead to a deeper understanding of the subject matter of linguistics in a comparative perspective, and to basic cultural issues about Africa. We encourage undergraduate and graduate students of Hong Kong and language and culture enthusiasts to take advantage of this opportunity to get a one-month introduction to African languages and the cultures associated with them.