Currently a visiting professor at Columbia University, Mame-Fatou Niang is a lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University (Pennsylvania, USA), director of the CBESA (Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic) and artist-in-residence at Ateliers Médicis. Dr. Niang works on the black question, anti-racism and universalism in France.

In 2015, she co-directed Mariannes Noires, a documentary on the careers of seven Afro-French women, as well as a photo series on Parisian Muslims (Black, French and Muslim). Mame-Fatou is the author of Identités Françaises, a book that questions the processes of marginalization and co-optation into the national community through a study of discourses on the suburbs (Ed.Brill, 2019). In 2022, she will publish Universalisme (Ed. Anamosa), an essay co-written with Julien Suaudeau. Mame-Fatou is currently completing a book entitled Mosaica Nigra: Blackness in 21st-century France.