[2] He studied pedagogy, then worked at the graphics studio of the French Cultural Centre in Kisangani.

There, in 1982, he wrote and drew his first published comic, Le Temps d'agir (Time to Act), on environmental issues.

In 1994, the Cultural Centre in Kisangani published his album Objectif Terre!

[3][4] For these works, Baruti "replaced his semi-humorous clear line style with a more realistic one".

[5] In December 2010, he was invited to participate in the first international exhibition of African comics, in Paris.