| The crippled giant: Nigeria since independence EE Osaghae Indiana University Press, 1998 | 968 | 1998 |
| A history of indentities, violence and stability in Nigeria EE Osaghae, RT Suberu Centre for Research on Inequality, University of Oxford, 2005 | 548 | 2005 |
| The Ogoni uprising: Oil politics, minority agitation and the future of the Nigerian state EE Osaghae African affairs 94 (376), 325-344, 1995 | 487 | 1995 |
| Structural adjustment and ethnicity in Nigeria EE Osaghae Nordic Africa Institute, 1995 | 246 | 1995 |
| Managing multiple minority problems in a divided society: The Nigerian experience EE Osaghae The Journal of Modern African Studies 36 (1), 1-24, 1998 | 220 | 1998 |
| Ethnic minorities and federalism in Nigeria EE Osaghae African Affairs 90 (359), 237-258, 1991 | 199 | 1991 |
| Nigeria since independence: Crippled giant EE Osaghae London: Hurst and Company, 1998 | 171 | 1998 |
| Ethnicity and its management in Africa: The democratization link EE Osaghae (No Title), 1994 | 169 | 1994 |
| Fragile states EE Osaghae Development in Practice 17 (4-5), 691-699, 2007 | 168 | 2007 |
| Colonialism and civil society in Africa: The perspective of Ekeh’s two publics EE Osaghae Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 17 …, 2006 | 147 | 2006 |
| Youth militias, self determination, and resource control struggles in the Niger-delta Region of Nigeria EE Osaghae, AO Ikelegbe, OO Olarinmoye, SI Okhomina Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2011 | 141 | 2011 |
| Federal character and federalism in Nigeria PP Ekeh, EE Osaghae (No Title), 1989 | 140 | 1989 |
| Citizenship and social movements: perspectives from the global South EE Osaghae, A Favareto, R Mohanty, LE Piper, S Mahmud, L Waldman, ... Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010 | 128 | 2010 |
| Democratization in sub‐saharan Africa: Faltering prospects, new hopes E Osaghae Journal of Contemporary African Studies 17 (1), 5-28, 1999 | 126 | 1999 |
| Applying traditional methods to modern conflict: Possibilities and limits EE Osaghae Traditional Cures for Modern Conflicts: African Conflict Medicine, Boulder …, 2000 | 103 | 2000 |
| The study of political transitions in Africa EE Osaghae Review of African Political Economy 22 (64), 183-197, 1995 | 100 | 1995 |
| Exiting from the State in Nigeria EE Osaghae African Journal of Political Science/Revue Africaine de Science Politique 4 …, 1999 | 95 | 1999 |
| A Reassessment of Federalism as a Degree of Decentralization EE Osaghae Publius: The Journal of Federalism 20 (1), 83-98, 1990 | 90 | 1990 |
| The state of Africa's second liberation EE Osaghae Interventions 7 (1), 1-20, 2005 | 81 | 2005 |
| Trends of migrant political organization in Nigeria: The Igbo in Kano EE Osaghae Institut français de recherche en Afrique, 1994 | 78* | 1994 |
