| A place where three roads meet literature, culture and society D Layiwola Ibadan University Press, 2010 | 27 | 2010 |
| Womanish in Nigerian folklore and drama D Layiwola | 16 | 1987 |
| Understanding post-colonial identities: Ireland, Africa and the pacific D Layiwola Sefer, 2001 | 12 | 2001 |
| The Philosophy of Wole Soyinka’s Art D Layiwola | 11 | 1996 |
| The radical alternative and the dilemma of the intellectual dramatist in Nigeria D Layiwola Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies 19 (1), 1991 | 8 | 1991 |
| Is ritual drama a humanistic methodology? thoughts on the new theatre D Layiwola African Theatre in Performance, 117-130, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| African theatre in performance: a festschrift in honour of Martin Banham D Layiwola Routledge, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| The problem of literal documentation in African dance studies D Layiwola University of Cape Town School of Dance, 1997 | 7 | 1997 |
| A handbook of methodology in African studies D Layiwola John Archers, 1999 | 6 | 1999 |
| Yoruba traditional musical instruments and gender stereotyping: forms, functions and factors OE Oludare, D Layiwola, M Olusegun Fela After 1997: Challenges, Justification and Lessons for Africa’s …, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| The subject-object imperative: women and the colonial struggle in three West African novels D Layiwola | 5 | 1998 |
| Gelede: metaphysics and gende in an African ritual play D Layiwola | 4 | 2000 |
| Egúngún in the performing arts of the Yorùbá: the case study of Òṣogbo D Layiwola Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan Ibadan, 1995 | 4 | 1995 |
| The Home Video Industry and Nigeria's Cultural Development D Layiwola Auteuring Nollywod: Critical Perspectives on The Figurine. Ed. Adeshina …, 2014 | 3 | 2014 |
| Conceptualizing African Dance Theatre D Layiwola CODESRIA 30th Anniversary Conferences, 2003 | 3 | 2003 |
| African studies and the African identity: an essay on the theory of culture D Layiwola | 3 | 1994 |
| Daniel Fagunwa and the Legacy of Yoruba oral tradition D Layiwola Bookcraft, 2017 | 2 | 2017 |
| Conceptualising African dance theatre in the context of African art and the humanities D Layiwola Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, 2010 | 2 | 2010 |
| The contexts non-linear history essays in honour of Tekena Tamuno D Layiwola, O Albert, B Muller Sefer Books, 2008 | 2 | 2008 |
| African drama and the dilemma of identity D Layiwola Ìbà: Essays on African Literature in Honour of Oyin Ògunbà, 109-121, 2003 | 2 | 2003 |
