| Performing South Africa's truth commission: Stages of transition CM Cole Indiana University Press 94305, 217-232, 2010 | 334 | 2010 |
| Ghana's concert party theatre CM Cole Indiana University Press, 2001 | 223 | 2001 |
| Africa after gender? CM Cole, T Manuh, S Miescher Indiana University Press, 2007 | 153 | 2007 |
| Performance, transitional justice, and the law: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission CM Cole Theatre Journal, 167-187, 2007 | 107 | 2007 |
| Of California: The Yosemite of Higher Education CM Cole Boom: A Journal of California 2 (3), 99-107, 2012 | 68 | 2012 |
| Reading blackface in West Africa: Wonders taken for signs CM Cole Critical Inquiry 23 (1), 183-215, 1996 | 58 | 1996 |
| Acts of transgression: Contemporary live art in South Africa J Pather, C Boulle Wits University Press, 2019 | 32 | 2019 |
| Routes of Blackface CM Cole, TC Davis TDR/The Drama Review 57 (2), 7-12, 2013 | 30 | 2013 |
| Sex and death on display: Women, reproduction, and fetuses at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry C Cole TDR (1988-) 37 (1), 43-60, 1993 | 25 | 1993 |
| American Ghetto Parties and Ghanaian Concert Parties: A Transnational Perspective on Blackface CM Cole, S Johnson Burnt cork: Traditions and legacies of blackface minstrelsy, 223-257, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| Introduction: When was gender? SF Miescher, T Manuh, CM Cole Africa after gender, 1-14, 2007 | 24 | 2007 |
| ‘This is actually a good interpretation of modern civilisation’: popular theatre and the social imaginary in Ghana, 1946–66 CM Cole Africa 67 (3), 363-388, 1997 | 21 | 1997 |
| 15 “Give Her a Slap to Warm Her Up”: Post-Gender Theory and Ghana’s Popular Culture CM Cole Africa after gender?, 270, 2007 | 15 | 2007 |
| At the convergence of transitional justice and art CM Cole International Journal of Transitional Justice 8 (2), 314-322, 2014 | 14 | 2014 |
| Africa After Gender? S Tamale, CM Cole, T Manuh, S Miescher Indiana University Press, 2007 | 13 | 2007 |
| Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice CM Cole | 12 | 2020 |
| When is African Theater ‘Black’? CM Cole Black cultural traffic: Crossroads in global performance and popular culture …, 2005 | 12 | 2005 |
| 16 Theatres of Truth, Acts of Reconciliation: The TRC in South Africa CM Cole A Research in African Literatures Book African Expressive Cultures, 219, 2004 | 11 | 2004 |
| Africa after gender? S Miescher, T Manuh, CM Cole Indiana University Press, 2007 | 9 | 2007 |
| When a Man Loves a Woman: Gender and National Identity in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Mariama Bâ’s Scarlet Song E Julien Africa After Gender, 205-22, 2007 | 6 | 2007 |
