Abdulkareem Baba Aminu

Abdulkareem Baba Aminu (born Kaduna, 7 July 1977) is a Nigerian journalist, cartoonist, comicbook artist and retailer, painter, writer, poet and culture critic.

[1] Born in Kaduna, Nigeria, on 7 July 1977, Baba Aminu soon began to scribble and doodle as a child, eventually going on to write an op-ed column for Classique Magazine at age 12.

On his approach to work, Baba Aminu told a Nigerian newspaper in an interview: “I have a healthy interest in stories and investigations into issues that seem to slip through the cracks and are forgotten by mainstream media.

Oftentimes, I take weeks and even months researching a story before writing it for publication.” For two years – with the help of the internet and long-distance phone calls - Baba Aminu was also the Special Features Editor of now-defunct Komikwerks.com, then a leading U.S-based publisher of both webcomics and regular comic books.

As a result of a very good professional and personal relationship, 'Kusare was tapped by Y!Magazine to write about Baba Aminu in the publication's annual "Freedom Issue" in 2010.