| Coloniality of power in postcolonial Africa SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni African Books Collective, 2013 | 360 | 2013 |
| Empire, global coloniality and African subjectivity SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni Berghahn Books, 2013 | 253 | 2013 |
| Do'Zimbabweans' exist?: trajectories of nationalism, national identity formation and crisis in a postcolonial state SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni Peter Lang, 2009 | 193 | 2009 |
| Why decoloniality in the 21st century SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni The thinker 48 (10), 10-15, 2013 | 188 | 2013 |
| Decoloniality as the future of Africa SJ Ndlovu‐Gatsheni History Compass 13 (10), 485-496, 2015 | 157 | 2015 |
| Making sense of Mugabeism in local and global politics:‘So Blair, keep your England and let me keep my Zimbabwe’ SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni Third World Quarterly 30 (6), 1139-1158, 2009 | 147 | 2009 |
| Epistemic freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and decolonization SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni Routledge, 2018 | 126 | 2018 |
| The entrapment of Africa within the global colonial matrices of power: Eurocentrism, coloniality, and deimperialization in the twenty-first century SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni Journal of Developing Societies 29 (4), 331-353, 2013 | 126 | 2013 |
| Africa for Africans or Africa for “natives” only?“New nationalism” and nativism in Zimbabwe and South Africa SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni Africa Spectrum 44 (1), 61-78, 2009 | 115 | 2009 |
| Making sense of cultural nationalism and the politics of commemoration under the Third Chimurenga in Zimbabwe SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni, W Willems Journal of Southern African Studies 35 (4), 945-965, 2009 | 108 | 2009 |
| ‘Echoing Silences\': Ethnicity in post-colonial Zimbabwe, 1980-2007 J Muzondidya, S Ndlovu-Gatsheni African Journal on Conflict Resolution 7 (2), 275-297, 2007 | 103 | 2007 |
| Dynamics of the Zimbabwe Crisis in the 21 st Century SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni African Journal on Conflict Resolution 3 (1), 99-134, 2003 | 89 | 2003 |
| Nation building in Zimbabwe and the challenges of Ndebele particularism SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni African Journal on Conflict Resolution 8 (3), 27-56, 2008 | 85 | 2008 |
| Mapping cultural and colonial encounters, 1880s-1930s SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni Becoming Zimbabwe: A history from the pre-colonial period to, 39-74, 2008 | 74 | 2008 |
| Coloniality of power in development studies and the impact of global imperial designs on Africa SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni Australasian Review of African Studies, The 33 (2), 48, 2012 | 70 | 2012 |
| Decoloniality in Africa: A continuing search for a new world order SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni Australasian Review of African Studies, The 36 (2), 22, 2015 | 69 | 2015 |
| The Ndebele nation: Reflections on hegemony, memory and historiography SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni Rozenberg Publishers, 2009 | 67 | 2009 |
| The World Cup, vuvuzelas, flag-waving patriots and the burden of building South Africa SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni Third World Quarterly 32 (2), 279-293, 2011 | 63 | 2011 |
| Rethinking" Chimurenga" and" Gukurahundi" in Zimbabwe: A Critique of Partisan National History SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni African studies review, 1-26, 2012 | 58 | 2012 |
| The decolonial Mandela: Peace, justice and the politics of life SJ Ndlovu-Gatsheni Berghahn Books, 2016 | 55 | 2016 |
