[1] Mbaye is best known as the director of the critically acclaim documentary Mère-Bi and films Doomi Ngacc, Fresque and Kemtiyu, Cheikh Anta.
[4][5] Mbaye trained at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français (Free Conservatory of French Cinema).
Since 2000, he started to make documentaries such as Président Dia and Kemtiyu, Cheikh Anta.
[6] In 2003, he made the documentary short Xalima la plume about Senegalese musician Seydina Insa Wade.
In 2005, he directed the documentary Fer et verre, focused on Senegalese plastic artist Anta Germane Gaye.