Abubakar Gimba OFR (10 March 1952 – 25 February 2015) was an author, administrator and economist who was a former vice president of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) and was elected president of the association from 1997 to 2001,[1] he is first person from North Nigeria to hold both positions.
Prior to entering the corporate sector, he was a civil servant who rose within the administrative cadre to become Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance during the tenure of David Mark between 1984 and 1987.
Thereafter, Abdulsalami Abubakar made him member Programme Implementation Monitoring Committee till end of the former's term in 1999.
In 1991, he published Sunset of a Mandarin, in which readers were introduced to aspects of his life within the civil service.
[4] His 1994 work, Sacred Apples, explores African feminism in a Muslim society through the eyes of its female protagonist, Zahra.