| When corruption fights back: democracy and elite interest in Nigeria's anti-corruption war W Adebanwi, E Obadare The Journal of Modern African Studies 49 (2), 185-213, 2011 | 145 | 2011 |
| The abrogation of the electorate: An emergent African phenomenon W Adebanwi, E Obadare Democratization in Africa: challenges and prospects, 37-61, 2013 | 140* | 2013 |
| The carpenter's revolt: youth, violence and the reinvention of culture in Nigeria W Adebanwi The Journal of Modern African Studies 43 (3), 339-365, 2005 | 99 | 2005 |
| Introducing Nigeria at fifty: The nation in narration W Adebanwi, E Obadare Nigeria at Fifty, 1-28, 2013 | 88 | 2013 |
| Capital cities in Africa: power and powerlessness SB Bekker, G Therborn Hsrc Press, 2012 | 86 | 2012 |
| Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: critical interpretations W Adebanwi, E Obadare Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 | 79 | 2013 |
| Terror, territoriality and the struggle for indigeneity and citizenship in Northern Nigeria W Adebanwi Citizenship Studies 13 (4), 349-363, 2009 | 71 | 2009 |
| Democracy and violence: the challenge of communal clashes W Adebanwi Nigeria’s Struggle for Democracy and Good Governance, 327-348, 2004 | 62 | 2004 |
| The press and the politics of marginal voices: narratives of the experiences of the Ogoni of Nigeria W Adebanwi Media, Culture & Society 26 (6), 763-783, 2004 | 59 | 2004 |
| Nation as grand narrative W Adebanwi Nation as Grand Narrative, 3-29, 2016 | 54* | 2016 |
| Glocal naming and shaming: Toponymic (inter) national relations on Lagos and New York's streets W Adebanwi African Affairs 111 (445), 640-661, 2012 | 54 | 2012 |
| Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Ọbáfemi Awólowo and Corporate Agency W Adebanwi Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 53 | 2014 |
| Introduction: Excess and abjection in the study of the African state E Obadare, W Adebanwi Encountering the Nigerian state, 1-28, 2010 | 52* | 2010 |
| Authority stealing: Anti-corruption war and democratic politics in post-military Nigeria W Adebanwi (No Title), 2012 | 51 | 2012 |
| Ethno-nationalist claims in southern Nigeria: Insights from Yoruba and Ijaw nationalisms since the 1990s C Ukeje, W Adebanwi Ethnic and Racial Studies 31 (3), 563-591, 2008 | 51 | 2008 |
| The writer as social thinker W Adebanwi Writers and Social Thought in Africa, 15-30, 2017 | 49 | 2017 |
| Encountering the Nigerian state W Adebanwi, E Obadare Springer, 2010 | 46 | 2010 |
| The political economy of everyday life in Africa: beyond the margins J Ferguson Boydell & Brewer, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Africa’s ‘two publics’: Colonialism and governmentality W Adebanwi Theory, Culture & Society 34 (4), 65-87, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
| Transnational resource flow and the paradoxes of belonging: Redirecting the debate on transnationalism, remittances, state and citizenship in Africa E Obadare, W Adebanwi Review of African Political Economy 36 (122), 499-517, 2009 | 35 | 2009 |
