Elena Bertoncini-Zubkova (ezbertoncini_at_iuo.it) is a professor in the Dept. of African and Arabic Studies, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli, Italy. She teaches Swahili language and literature in Naples, and intensive courses at INALCO (Paris) and other European universities. She has an extensive list of publications about Swahili, and contributed several thousand example sentences culled from Swahili literature that are incorporated into the Kamusi Project lexicon.