He graduated in business administration from the University of Assiut in Egypt, and has exercised different professional activities during his life: as manual worker, secondary school teacher, consultant for UNICEF in Darfur, or as employee of an international NGO for children's rights.
His literary work, which speaks of marginalised people and war, with references to the Darfur genocide and the dictatorship in Sudan under Omar al-Bashir, is published in Arabic in Egypt.
[4] In 2011, Baraka Sakin received the Al-Tayeb Salih Prize for Creative Writing at the Khartoum book fair for his novel The Jungo – Stakes of the Earth, which deals with the conditions in a women's prison in El-Gadarif in eastern Sudan.
In a review for the German online portal Qantara, fellow writer Volker Kaminski wrote about the novel:[13] The reader is caught up in the fate of a population trapped in a brutal civil war between government troops and rebels, with huge loss of life and little chance of survival.
And in the midst of this storm of violence, there is the struggle for life, a flash of joy and pleasure.At the end of August 2022, the Austrian city of Graz announced that Baraka Sakin had been nominated for their artist-in-residence award for 2022/23.
The jury explained the award with the following words: "In his novels, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin proves himself to be an astute observer of socioeconomic realities and, last but not least, a convincing analyst of myths and ideologies.