| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | “Sitting on a Man”: Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1972 | 118 |
| 2 | Morning Yet on Creation Day | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1976 | 112 |
| 3 | Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1999 | 110 |
| 4 | Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1997 | 74 |
| 5 | Black Imperialism: Americo-Liberian Rule over the African Peoples of Liberia, 1841–1964 | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1973 | 69 |
| 6 | "Sitting on a Man": Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1972 | 68 |
| 7 | Women “Entrepreneurs” of Early Nairobi | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1975 | 67 |
| 8 | African Women, Fashion, and Scapegoating | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1972 | 66 |
| 9 | The Death of Makola and Other Tragedies | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1983 | 64 |
| 10 | Missions and the Colonization of African Languages: Developments in the Former Belgian Congo | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1983 | 62 |
| 11 | "Ethnic Clashes" and Winning Elections: The Case of Kenya's Electoral Despotism | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2001 | 61 |
| 12 | The Production of History in Kenya: The Mau Mau Debate | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1991 | 60 |
| 13 | “Ethnic Clashes” and Winning Elections: The Case of Kenya’s Electoral Despotism | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2001 | 60 |
| 14 | Women, AIDS, and Economic Crisis in Central Africa | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1988 | 59 |
| 15 | Changing Contexts and Dynamics of Farmer-Herder Conflicts Across West Africa | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2006 | 59 |
| 16 | Loose Women, Virtuous Wives, and Timid Virgins: Gender and the Control of Resources in Rwanda | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1991 | 57 |
| 17 | Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2001 | 54 |
| 18 | Transnationalism and Non-South African Entrepreneurs in South Africa’s Small, Medium and Micro-Enterprise (SMME) Economy | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2000 | 53 |
| 19 | Who Benefited From the Million-Acre Scheme? Toward a Class Analysis of Kenya's Transition to Independence | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1981 | 50 |
| 20 | Transnationalism and Non-South African Entrepreneurs in South Africa's Small, Medium and Micro-Enterprise (SMME) Economy | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2000 | 50 |
| 21 | Farmers, Traders and Brokers in the Gold Coast Cocoa Economy | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1978 | 49 |
| 22 | The Enslavement of Africans: A Demographic Model | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1981 | 49 |
| 23 | The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1998 | 48 |
| 24 | Femmes, greniers et capitaux | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1977 | 46 |
| 25 | The Transformation of Transnationality among Mozambican Migrants in South Africa | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2000 | 46 |
| 26 | The third wave: mixed migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2015 | 46 |
| 27 | Matriliny and the New Intestate Succession Law of Ghana | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1990 | 43 |
| 28 | Ethnography as Politics, Politics as Ethnography: Kenyatta, Malinowski, and the Making of Facing Mount Kenya | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1996 | 42 |
| 29 | Crises of Accumulation, Coercion and the Colonial State: The Development of the Labor Control System in Kenya, 1919-1929 | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1980 | 41 |
| 30 | African Rhythm and African Sensibility | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1982 | 41 |
| 31 | Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680 | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1994 | 41 |
| 32 | Continuity and Counter-Insurgency: The Role of Land Reform in Decolonizing Kenya, 1962–70 | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1973 | 40 |
| 33 | Bodily Fluids and Usufruct: Controlling Property in Nairobi, 1917-1939 | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1990 | 40 |
| 34 | Factional Politics and Central Control in Mombasa, 1960-1969 | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1970 | 39 |
| 35 | African Cinema: Politics and Culture | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1993 | 39 |
| 36 | African Wildlife and Livelihoods: The Promise and Performance of Community Conservation | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2002 | 39 |
| 37 | Forging Democracy from below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2002 | 39 |
| 38 | Capital, Kinship, and Conflict: The Structuring Influence of Capital in Kinship Societies | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1990 | 38 |
| 39 | Matriliny and the New Intestate Succession Law of Ghana | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1990 | 38 |
| 40 | Neo-Colonialism in West Africa | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1976 | 37 |
| 41 | Women, AIDS, and Economic Crisis in Central Africa | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1988 | 37 |
| 42 | Rural Mass Action in the Context of Anti-Colonial Protest: The Asafo Movement of Akim Abuakwa, Ghana | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1974 | 36 |
| 43 | Political Contingencies of Witchcraft in Colonial Central Africa: Culture and the State in Marxist Theory | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1982 | 36 |
| 44 | Political Contingencies of Witchcraft in Colonial Central Africa: Culture and the State in Marxist Theory | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1982 | 36 |
| 45 | Neo-Colonialism and Ghana's Economic Decline: A Critical Assessment | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1984 | 36 |
| 46 | Origins of the Democratic Developmental State: Interrogating Mauritius | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2005 | 36 |
| 47 | Migration and Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Ghana’s Volta Basin | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2006 | 36 |
| 48 | The Changing Picture of Depressive Syndromes in Africa: Is it Fact or Diagnostic Fashion? | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1967 | 35 |
| 49 | Kenyatta and the Organization of KANU | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1968 | 35 |
| 50 | An Introduction to Nigerian Government and Politics | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 1985 | 35 |
