| Kenya: between hope and despair, 1963-2011 D Branch Yale University Press, 2011 | 544 | 2011 |
| Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya: counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization D Branch Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 445 | 2009 |
| Democratization, sequencing, and state failure in Africa: Lessons from Kenya D Branch, N Cheeseman African Affairs 108 (430), 1-26, 2009 | 397 | 2009 |
| The politics of control in Kenya: Understanding the bureaucratic-executive state, 1952–78 D Branch, N Cheeseman Review of African Political Economy 33 (107), 11-31, 2006 | 181 | 2006 |
| The enemy within: loyalists and the war against Mau Mau in Kenya D Branch The Journal of African History 48 (02), 291-315, 2007 | 132 | 2007 |
| Imprisonment and colonialism in Kenya, c. 1930-1952: Escaping the carceral archipelago D Branch The International journal of African historical studies 38 (2), 239-265, 2005 | 70 | 2005 |
| Revisiting counterinsurgency D Branch, EJ Wood Politics & Society 38 (1), 3-14, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |
| Violence, decolonisation and the Cold War in Kenya's north-eastern province, 1963–1978 D Branch Journal of Eastern African Studies 8 (4), 642-657, 2014 | 47 | 2014 |
| Loyalists, Mau Mau, and elections in Kenya: the first triumph of the system, 1957-1958 D Branch Africa Today 53 (2), 27-50, 2006 | 41 | 2006 |
| Footprints in the sand: British colonial counterinsurgency and the war in Iraq D Branch Politics & Society 38 (1), 15-34, 2010 | 34 | 2010 |
| Political Traffic: Kenyan Students in Eastern and Central Europe, 1958–69 D Branch Journal of Contemporary History, 0022009418761194, 2018 | 32 | 2018 |
| Allies at the End of Empire—Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945–76 DM Anderson, D Branch The International History Review 39 (1), 1-13, 2017 | 28* | 2017 |
| Introduction: Our turn to eat D Branch, N Cheeseman Our Turn to Eat: Politics in Kenya Since, 1-22, 1950 | 26 | 1950 |
| The search for the remains of Dedan Kimathi: the politics of death and memorialization in post-colonial Kenya D Branch Past & Present 206 (suppl 5), 301-320, 2010 | 24 | 2010 |
| A very British massacre D Anderson, H Bennett, D Branch History today 56 (8), 20, 2006 | 18 | 2006 |
| Briefing: using opinion polls to evaluate Kenyan politics, March 2004-January 2005 D Branch, N Cheeseman African Affairs, 325-336, 2005 | 18 | 2005 |
| Why Kenya Invaded Somalia D Branch Foreign Affairs, 2011 | 15 | 2011 |
| Election fever: Kenya’s crisis D Branch, N Cheeseman Journal of Eastern African Studies 2 (2), 2008 | 13 | 2008 |
| Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century I Milford, G McCann, E Hunter, D Branch The Journal of African History, 1-17, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| The normalisation of violence D Branch The politics of violence and accountability in Kenya. Oxford transitional …, 2009 | 6 | 2009 |
