Elena Bertoncini Zúbková,/b> is Professor of Swahili Language and Literature at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale' in Italy. She has published extensively on modern Swahili literature, stylistics and discourse analysis. Mikhail D. Gromov, Ph.D. (1993), Doctor of Letters (2005) in Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, is currently the Associate Professor of Swahili and Literature at the United States International University in Nairobi. He has published a number of works on modern Swahili literature. Said A.

M. Khamis is Professor of African Literatures in African languages at the University of Bayreuth Germany. He has taught in a number of academic institutions, a.o. in Zanzibar, Eldoret and Nairobi (Kenya) and in Osaka (Japan). He has written extensively on Swahili structure and linguistics, Swahili literature and culture, and has published creative works, including poetry, plays, novels and short stories. Kyallo Wadi Wamitila , Ph.D.

(1999), University of Bayreuth, is a Researcher and Senior Lecturer at the University of Nairobi. He has published extensively on Swahili Literature and Language. Among his many publications are his three novels that have won him The Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature: Nguvu ya Sala (2001), Musaleo! (2005) and Msimu wa Vipepeo (2007).