Bahia was born in a nomadic family in 1960 near Auserd, on the Rio de Oro southern region of then Spanish Sahara. His mother gave him his first classes, acting as teacher until he joined the first schools made by the Spanish authorities, an experience later portrayed in his book "Louisiana maestra que me enseñó en una tabla de madera".
Although he had always loved arts like poetry, he graduated in telecommunications by the University of Havana.
Bahia started writing when he was 25, according to him "little reflexions and poems". In 2005, with other Sahrawi writers and poets, he formed the group known as the "Sahrawi Friendship Generation". In 2007, the Alcalá de Henares university published his first solo book of poems, entitled "Versos refugiados" ("Refugee verses").
In 2008, he published in which he stated as a "brief essay" named "Literatura del Sáhara Occidental" ("Western Sahara literature"), where he took a look at the Sahrawi oral and written literature since the 18th century until our days, both in Hassaniya and Spanish.
In 2010 the editorial Sepha published his first novel, entitled "Louisiana maestra que me enseñó en una tabla de madera" ("The mistress who teach me on a wood table"), a book most based on his childhood memories about his mother, who teach him to read and write in his first life years. In 2012, the Arabic culture specialized editorial CantArabia published "El Sueño de Volver" ("The Dream of Returning"), in which Awah remembered his life and experiences in then Spanish Sahara.
He is a founding member of the group of writers known as the "Sahrawi Friendship Generation".
