 My name is Seraphine Camden. I'm the convener of the Understanding Africa summer course and we are happy to have you this year as students on this course. For those of you who have already confirmed their place, thank you. For those of you who still have to do that, please, we would really appreciate that you do that now. The course this year has in the other years that this course has been running, which is now more than five years, will be very exciting experience of learning together about a very interesting and fascinating continent that Africa is. The course is very broad in terms of the themes and the topic that we cover. So we will go all the way from pre-colonial Africa into the colonial era, moving on to the independence and post-colonial Africa and looking at some of the challenges of Africa into the 21st century. But we'll also touch on languages and cultures of Africa in this course. We will have sessions on hopefully on music in Africa, religion in Africa. We will look at manuscripts of a number of African languages and the literature produced in African languages. We will be planning also to have sessions on gender, gender and women in Africa governance. So there's a lot of interesting topic that this course will be attempting and making sure we touch on and cover with you. It will also be a learning experience together where you'll be part of the whole learning process and the journey that we'll be having together in this course. Thank you again for joining this course and see you soon on the online platform of the course this year. Thank you.