After receiving her baccalaureate, Kaba enrolled at École des nouveaux métiers de la communication largely at the behest of her father.
She only attended the school for a year and spent the money her father sent her on acting lessons, studying under Isabelle Sadoyan.
[1] Kaba's first stage role was as the wife of Toussaint Louverture, alongside Benjamin Jules-Rosette, director of the Théâtre noir in Paris.
A World War II epic directed by Cheik Doukouré, she played a nurse engaged to the teacher Lancéi Kanté.
Kaba explains that she read the script before meeting the real Fatou, and would never allow her husband to do a similar thing to her daughter.