| Afro-Brazilians: cultural production in a racial democracy N Afolabi University Rochester Press, 2009 | 64 | 2009 |
| Golden cage: regeneration in Lusophone African literature and culture N Afolabi Africa Research and Publications, 2001 | 43 | 2001 |
| The human cost of African migrations T Falola, N Afolabi Routledge, 2007 | 39 | 2007 |
| Migrations and creative expressions in Africa and the African diaspora T Falola, N Afolabi, AA Adésànyà Carolina Academic Press, 2008 | 23 | 2008 |
| Trans-Atlantic migration: The paradoxes of exile T Falola, N Afolabi Routledge, 2007 | 21 | 2007 |
| Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the reinvention of Africa N Afolabi Springer, 2016 | 19 | 2016 |
| African minorities in the new world T Falola, N Afolabi Routledge, 2007 | 17 | 2007 |
| Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship N Afolabi journal of Black Studies 43 (8), 847-871, 2012 | 15 | 2012 |
| The Afro-Brazilian Mind; A Mente Afro-Brasileira: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Criticism: Critica Literária E Cultural Afro-Braileira Contempor N Afolabi, M Barbosa, E Ribeiro Africa World Press, 2007 | 15* | 2007 |
| Cadernos Negros/Black Notebooks: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literary Movement N Afolabi, M Barbosa, E Ribeiro Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2008 | 13 | 2008 |
| Toyin Falola: The Man, the Mask, the Muse N Afolabi Carolina Academic Press, 2010 | 12 | 2010 |
| The myth of the participatory paradigm: carnival and contradictions in Brazil N Afolabi Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 20 (1), 231-50, 2001 | 11 | 2001 |
| Beyond the curtains: unveiling Afro-Brazilian women writers N Afolabi Research in African literatures 32 (4), 117-135, 2001 | 10 | 2001 |
| Magic of words: gender, history, and afro-memory N AFOLABI GUIMARÃES, G. The color of tenderness. Tradução de Niyi Afolabi. Trenton, NJ …, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| Introduction: Migration fantasies, nightmarish realities T Falola, N Afolabi The Human Cost of African Migrations. New York: Routledge, 2007 | 7 | 2007 |
| Axé: invocation of candomblé and Afro-Brazilian gods in Brazilian cultural production N Afolabi | 7 | 2005 |
| A visão mítico-trágica na dramaturgia abdiasiana N Afolabi Hispania, 530-540, 1998 | 7 | 1998 |
| Introduction: Migrating souls, resistant spirits T Falola, N Afolabi, A Adesanya, T Falola, N Afolabi, A Adesanya Migrations and creative expressions in Africa and Africa Diaspora, 3-28, 2008 | 6 | 2008 |
| Introduction: Voluntarily singing the Lord’s song T Falola, N Afolabi African minorities in the new world, 1-20, 2008 | 6 | 2008 |
| Emerging Perspectives on Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa: Prophet Trickster, and Provocateur N Afolabi Africa World Press, 2009 | 5 | 2009 |
