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Abdulkareem Baba Aminu (Kaduna, 7 July 1977 - ) is a Nigerian journalist, cartoonist, comicbook artist and retailer, painter, writer, poet and culture critic.

Abdulkareem Baba Aminu is pictured here at the Victoria Island, Lagos residence of financial guru Fola Adeola, after a rare interview in May, 2009

Baba Aminu is a commentator on culture. He was one of four judges for KORA Music Awards. ^[1]

Born in Kaduna, Nigeria, on the 7th day of the 7th month of 1977, Baba Aminu soon began to scribble and doodle as a child, eventually going on to write an op-ed column for Classique Magazine at age 12, a first in his country till today.

Later, while in secondary school, he created 2 weekly cartoon strips for the Saturday and Sunday editions of The Democrat, a national daily. The characters, Bala and Kareema, became popular and were used by Peugeot Automobiles Nigeria to endorse their then-new 306 model.

Abdulkareem Baba Aminu is a well-known culture critic, with a large following of people who revere his reviews of music, movies, TV shows and books

Baba Aminu went to the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, for a degree in Business Administration, while pursuing a career as a studio painter. He has exhibited in several group shows and one solo. Twelve of his paintings are included in the National Assembly Art Collection in Abuja, Nigeria.

During his final year in university, he was employed by Weekly Trust, a major Nigerian weekly. After a stint as a reporter, he became the entertainment editor and eventually the editor of the magazine section of the paper.

It was Baba Aminu’s story in the Weekly Trust of 25 October 2005 that raised concern over the possibility of an avian flu outbreak in Nigeria.^{[citation needed]}

On that, Baba Aminu told a Nigerian newspaper in an interview:

“I have a healthy interest in stories and investigations into issues that seem to slip through the cracks and are forgotten by mainstream media. Even when it comes to entertainment stories, which some people believe are fluff, I look for previously-unseen angles. Oftentimes, I take weeks and even months researching a story before writing it for publication.”

For two years – with the help of the internet and long-distance phone calls - Baba Aminu was also the Special Features Editor of Komikwerks.com, a leading U.S-based publisher of both webcomics and regular books. ^[2]

Baba Aminu was part of an FG Monitoring Team in Togo, during that country’s controversial 2005 elections, where he “faced death many times trying to escape back to Nigeria after the elections turned violent.” The resulting travelogue, called ‘Escape from Togo’ was published May 2005.

For his investigative journalism work, Baba Aminu was nominated for ‘Journalist of the Year’ at the 2006 edition of the Future Awards Nigeria. The following year, he was nominated again and he won. ^[3]

Currently, he is the Ag. Editor of the Abuja-based Weekly Trust.

Additionally, he was a writer on the BBC-produced ‘Wetin Dey,’ the number one TV show in Nigeria while it ran, up to an unprecedented second season.

He also is the co-owner of Planet Comics, Nigeria’s first comic book store.^[4]

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