Aisha Aliyu-Bima is an art curator, writer and photographer. She is the director of arts at the African School of Economics in Abuja, Nigeria.

Aisha’s work focuses mainly on Africa’s contemporary art through the lens of language, conflict, material and reparations. Her research subjects include the Hausa language and its influence and counter-influence across the Sahel region. She examines the interconnections in this region, the past and present cultures of the Nok Valley, and material and ecological functions in African art.

She has been published in the Republic Journal and Za! Magazine, and recently completed a research residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Her exhibition Arewa? opens at the Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art in Lagos in July 2024.