Aisha Aliyu-Bima, is a curator, photographer, writer and Director of Arts at the African School of Economics, Abuja. Her work mainly focuses on Northern Nigerian and Sahelian contemporary arts through the lens of Language, Conflict, Material and Reparations. Her research subjects include the Hausa Language, its influence and counter-influences across the Sahel and the interconnections in this region; and material and ecological functions in African Art. Her exhibition, “Arewa?” opens at the Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Lagos in June 2024.