Balaraba Ramat Yakubu (born 1959)[1] is a Nigerian author who writes in Hausa.

She is a leader in the genre of littattafan soyayya or "love literature", and one of the very few Hausa-language writers whose work has been translated into English.

Her stories have focused on issues such as forced marriages and women's education.

[5] Balaraba Ramat started her career as the only woman member of the influential Kano-based writer's club Raina Kama.

Her second and third novels, Alhaki Kwikwiyo Ne... ("Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home") and Wa zai auri jahila?