| A critical divination: Reading Sula as ogbanje-abiku CN Okonkwo African American Review 38 (4), 651-668, 2004 | 41 | 2004 |
| A spirit of dialogue: incarnations of Ogbanje, the born-to-die CN Okonkwo African American Literature, 2008 | 35 | 2008 |
| Of Repression, Assertion, and the Speakerly Dress: Anzia Yezierska's Salome of the Tenements CN Okonkwo Melus 25 (1), 129-145, 2000 | 29 | 2000 |
| Space Matters: Form and Narrative in Tsitsi Dangaremgba's" Nervous Conditions" C Okonkwo Research in African literatures, 53-74, 2003 | 26 | 2003 |
| Suicide or Messianic Self-Sacrifice?: Exhuming Willa's Body in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills CN Okonkwo African American Review 35 (1), 117-131, 2001 | 21 | 2001 |
| A Spirit of Dialogue: Incarnations of Ợgbañje, the Born-to-die, in African American Literature CN Okonkwo Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2008 | 10 | 2008 |
| 'Coming to America': Ike Oguine's A Squatter's Tale and the Nigerian/African Immigrant's Narrative CN Okonkwo African Literature Today 27, 130-44, 2010 | 8 | 2010 |
| " It Was Like Meeting an Old Friend": An Interview with John Edgar Wideman CN Okonkwo, JE Wideman Callaloo 29 (2), 346-360, 2006 | 6 | 2006 |
| Chinua Achebe's Blue Notes: Toward a Critical Recording of Things Fall Apart's Blues and Jazz Sensibility CN Okonkwo Research in African Literatures 47 (1), 109-127, 2016 | 4 | 2016 |
| OF CAUL AND RESPONSE:" BABY OF THE FAMILY", ANSA'S NEGLECTED METAFICTION OF THE VEIL OF BLACKNESS CN Okonkwo CLA Journal 49 (2), 144-167, 2005 | 4 | 2005 |
| Migration blues in jazz styling: spinning them overlooked jazz and blues numbers in Brian Chikwava's fiction CN Okonkwo Research in African Literatures 47 (4), 152-170, 2016 | 3 | 2016 |
| ALT 27 New Novels in African Literature Today EN Emenyonu, AU Azodo, B Cooper, C Nnolim, C Okonkwo, C Okafor, ... Boydell and Brewer, 2009 | 3 | 2009 |
| Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison CN Okonkwo (No Title), 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sound Statements and Counterpoints: Ike Oguine's Channeling of Music, Highlife, and Jazz in A Squatter's Tale CN Okonkwo College Literature 46 (3), 628-658, 2019 | 1 | 2019 |
| The spirit -child as idiom: Reading ogbanje dialogic as a platform of conversation among four black women's novels CN Okonkwo The Florida State University, 2001 | 1 | 2001 |
| The spirit-child as idiom: Reading ogbanje dialogic as a platform of conversation among four black women's novels (Tina McElroy Ansa, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall … CN Okonkwo | | 2002 |
