Mwalimu Hezekiel Gikambi is a Kiswahili native speaker, voice-over consultant,  teacher, journalist and editor, and author of fiction, drama, poetry, and school textbooks. As a high school student, he grew interested in the Kenyan national language, Kiswahili which he has spoken since birth. He graduated from the University of Nairobi with a Bachelor of Education (Arts) Honours degree and started his teaching career in high schools in Mombasa, the Kenyan Coastal town where Kiswahili originated.
Teaching Kiswahili to Swahilis (coast people) enabled him to acquire a naturalized coastal accent and a firm grip of the language, as he interacted with classical Swahili poets like Ahmed Nassir, abdilatif Abdalla and Sheikh Ahmed Nabhany. While teaching he was a part-time Consultant Kiswahili Editor with several publishing firms in Kenya, and Tanzania and church organizations in UK. He has also taught in Eldoret and Nairobi. Since then, Hezekiel Gikambi has become an established Kiswahili author. He has written five Kiswahili course books, including the series Johari ya Kiswahili [Swahili Jewel] (2009) Ujuzi publishers, for Tanzanian high schools, Peak Encyclopedia KCSE Compulsory Subjects and two books for 10-15 year-olds entitled Safari ya Serengeti [The Journey of Serengeti) (2010) E.A.E.P. and Ningependa Kusahau [I would like to forget] (2010)E.A.E.P., Mwongozo wa Damu Nyeusi na Hadithi nyingine na Mwongozo wa Mstahiki Meya (2012) by Swahilihub. After teaching Kiswahili for 15 years at high schools and colleges, in 2008 Hezekiel Gikambi also became Kiswahili Education Features Editor for Taifa Leo (Daily Nation), the sole Kenyan daily paper published in Kiswahili by the Nation Media Group, a large media company in East, Central and West Africa. He is also a part-time consultant on translation involving Kiswahili and holds a postgraduate qualification in Journalism and Mass Communication from Kenyatta University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Sales Management and Marketing from Cambridge University in the UK, Master in Swahili (Computational linguistics and Language Technology and currently doing his PhD in Media, Technology and Swahili). He was the Project Manager of swahilihub (www.swahilihub.com) a website of Nation Media Group. He also writes and gives readings of his poems and plays, and he is currently working on his first novel entitled Haki Haramu [Illegal Rights].