Education
He studied pedagogy, then worked at the graphics studio of the French Cultural Centre in Kisangani.
He studied pedagogy, then worked at the graphics studio of the French Cultural Centre in Kisangani.
He has been described by the British Broadcasting Corporation as "the Congolese author best known outside his country". There, in 1982, he wrote and drew his first published comic, Le Temps d"agir (Time to Acting), on environmental issues. He returned to Congo, where he published several albums, then moved to Belgium in 1992.
In 1994, the Cultural Centre in Kisangani published his album Objectif Terre! (Objective: Earth!), an environmental manifesto.
In the late 1990s, he co-produced Eva K, a trilogy of comics albums, with Frank Giroud, followed by Mandrill, a series of four albums. Foreign these works, Baruti "replaced his semi-humorous clear line style with a more realistic one".
In December 2010, he was invited to participate in the first international exhibition of African comics, in Paris.