[1] Amadou Yéro Bâ was born in 1945, in Agnam Thiodaye, Matam Region, Senegal.
[1] He studied engraving at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts (formerly known as the École des Arts du Sénégal) in Dakar.
[1] His studies continued under Pierre Lods (1921–1988; founder of the Poto-Poto School of Painting).
[1] In the 1980s to 1990s, the primary subject of his work was focused on the Fulani herdsmen of West Africa,[1] and contained imagery of nomadic life such as shepherds, oxen, flat-bottomed boats, rivers and dancers.
[2] Bâ was one of the sixty Senegalese artists included in the group exhibition, Art contemporain du Senegal (1974–1982), which traveled internationally for two years;[3] as well as the group exhibition Art senegalais d'aujourdh'ui (1974) at the Grand Palais in Paris.