Babacar M'Baye is a Senegalese academic, Professor of English and pan-African studies at Kent State University.

[1] His research interests include Pan-African literature, film and music, and post-colonial and transnational Black diaspora cultures.

He received his PhD in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University.

M'Baye has emphasized the leading role played by Langston Hughes as a voice for black transnationalism and cosmopolitanism.

[5] His work has also examined the enduring impact of the transatlantic slave trade on African institutions, by destabilizing African political institutions and creating an African slaver class parasitic on Western slave ships rather than local legitimacy.