[3] She was later asked by the art curator, Simon Njami, to write for Planète Jeunes, a francophone monthly youth magazine.

From 1999 to 2005 she collaborated with Afrique Magazine where she created and ran the column Ma nuit avec (My night with), a series of reviews where she would spend the evening with a celebrity.

Boni-Claverie currently writes a column both in the French language Le Huffington Post[5] and in the Nouvel Obs[6] where she regularly publishes about what it means to be black in France, diversity, and inclusion.

Due to her growing interest in cinema, she wrote the screenplay for her first short film, Le Génie d'Abou (Abu's Genie), which she directed in 1997.

At that time she was a first year student at La Fémis and Le Génie d’Abou was supposed to be a mere training exercise.

Initially set to be filmed in Abidjan, because of the troubled politic situation at that time, the shooting was relocated to Marseille, France.

-Documenta Opening Night, aired in 2002 on Arte, is a short documentary clip about Okwui Enwezor's Documenta in Kassel, Germany.

[9][10][11] Combining an intimate approach with the testimony of black-skinned French citizens, and historians or sociologists like Pap Ndiaye, Achille Mbembe, Eric Fassin, Patrick Simon, she delivers a moving yet instructive documentary in which "she peels back the layers of race relations" according to Afro-Punk.

"[16] Boni-Claverie also examines the essential distance between Black French citizenship and social recognition of such in the context of France's universalism.

Through several interviews with sociologists, demographers, and historians, Boni-Claverie forms the argument that the colorblind legislation of universalism does not necessarily lead to greater equality, as it does not solve underlying problems of racial inequality.