| Religion and society in central Africa: the BaKongo of lower Zaire W MacGaffey University of Chicago Press, 1986 | 531 | 1986 |
| Modern Kongo Prophets: religion in a plural society W MacGaffey Indiana University Press, 1983 | 280 | 1983 |
| Kongo political culture: the conceptual challenge of the particular W MacGaffey Indiana University Press, 2000 | 240 | 2000 |
| An anthology of Kongo religion: Primary texts from Lower Zaïre JM Janzen, W MacGaffey (No Title), 1974 | 172 | 1974 |
| Custom and government in the Lower Congo W MacGaffey (No Title), 1970 | 163 | 1970 |
| Fetishism Revisited: Kongo Nkisi in Sociological Perspective1 W MacGaffey Africa 47 (2), 172-184, 1977 | 143 | 1977 |
| Art and healing of the Bakongo, commented by themselves: minkisi from the Laman collection W MacGaffey Folkens Museum Etnografiska, 1991 | 120 | 1991 |
| Astonishment and power W MacGaffey, MD Harris, SH Williams, DC Driskell Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian …, 1993 | 117 | 1993 |
| Concepts of race in the Historicography of northeast Africa1 W MacGaffey The Journal of African History 7 (1), 1-17, 1966 | 109 | 1966 |
| Dialogues of the deaf: Europeans on the Atlantic coast of Africa W MacGaffey Cambridge University Press, 1994 | 108 | 1994 |
| Complexity, astonishment and power: the visual vocabulary of Kongo Minkisi W MacGaffey Journal of Southern African Studies 14 (2), 188-203, 1988 | 102 | 1988 |
| African ideology and belief: A survey W MacGaffey African Studies Review 24 (2-3), 227-274, 1981 | 93 | 1981 |
| The eyes of understanding: Kongo Minkisi W MacGaffey Astonishment and power, 21-103, 1993 | 88 | 1993 |
| Death of a king, death of a kingdom? Social pluralism and succession to high office in Dagbon, northern Ghana W MacGaffey The Journal of Modern African Studies 44 (1), 79-99, 2006 | 82 | 2006 |
| African objects and the idea of fetish W MacGaffey Res: Anthropology and aesthetics 25 (1), 123-131, 1994 | 81 | 1994 |
| Cuba: Its people, its society, its culture CR Barnett, J Haiken, M Vreeland Survey of World Cultures (USA) eng, 1962 | 81 | 1962 |
| Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers: History, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana W MacGaffey University of Virginia Press, 2013 | 75 | 2013 |
| Twentieth-century Cuba: the background of the Castro revolution W MacGaffey, CR Barnett, J Haiken, M Vreeland (No Title), 1965 | 74 | 1965 |
| Changing representations in Central African history W MacGaffey The Journal of African History 46 (2), 189-207, 2005 | 72 | 2005 |
| The religious commissions of the Bakongo W MacGaffey Man 5 (1), 27-38, 1970 | 66 | 1970 |
