The author, Robert Lionel Kholekile Mazibuko, was born in South Africa and educated there until a second year at university. He graduated in a B .S. Information Technology in the United States and holds other certificates: in Pharmaceutical Production Technology, Medical Assisting, CNA, and Office Technology. He has worked as a Hospital Clerk, Pharmaceutical Quality Controller, Medical Assistant and as a CNA. and has lived in two countries, Swaziland and South Africa becoming a citizen in the United States since 1992 where he has resided at the writing of this book. At present the is the author of five other published books
He was elected and served on the Bahá'í National Assembly in South Africa for ten years and has also served as a Translator, translating two major works of his faith, the Bahá'í Faith: the Kitáb-i-Iqán( The Book of Certitude) and the Hidden Words into Xhosa, an African language, as well as other booklets and documents. For several years he served as a Traveling Teacher for his faith both in South Africa and Swaziland, traveling in the city and rural environments.
He has traveled to Namibia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mozambique, Germany, France and Luxembourg, is now retired in the United States' Washington Island, Wisconsin. He has learned to recognize some European languages both as spoken and written, mainly French and Spanish and can converse in other African languages, i.e. SiSwati, Xhosa and Zulu, as he has lived in all those environments.
He is married to an American citizen and both his two children from a previous marriage in Africa live in the United States.
