The 10th World Congress of African Languages and Linguistics will be held at Leiden University from June 7th-12th, 2021. We are currently planning a hybrid event: the conference will be primarily online and all presentations need to be prerecorded and will be broadcast at the times in the programme. We envisage that travelling possibilities will still be limited in June 2021 but participants who can travel to Leiden are welcome to be together with us and have the community feeling attending the event online in Leiden. This is of course also possible in other places in the world. We encourage colleagues to consider participating online in groups at their various locations to promote the physical as well as virtual community togetherness (see below).