Aisha Aliyu Bima

Aisha Aliyu-Bima is a curator, writer, researcher and photographer. She is the Director of Arts at the African School of Economics, Abuja, Nigeria.
Her work mainly focuses on Africa's contemporary arts through a  geographical and anthropological lens. Her research subjects include the Hausa Language, its influence and counter-influences across the Sahel and the interconnections in this region, the past and present cultures of Nok Valley; and material and ecological functions in African Art. She has been published in the Republic Journal, Radr Africa, and Za! Magazine. She has been a Curatorial resident at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and Angels and Muse, Lagos. Her exhibition “Arewa?” which presented a nuanced tour of Northern Nigeria through the works of its three generations of contemporary artists opened at the Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Lagos in July 2024.