• Olaniyan, Tejumola. Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance : The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama. Oxford University Press, 1995.

• Olaniyan, Tejumola. Arrest the Music! : Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics. Indiana University Press, 2004.

• Conteh-Morgan, John, and Tejumola Olaniyan editors. African Drama and Performance. Indiana University Press, 2004.

• Olaniyan, Tejumola, and Ato Quayson, editors. African Literature : An Anthology of Criticism and Theory. Blackwell Pub, 2007.

• Olaniyan, Tejumola, and James H Sweet, editores. The African Diaspora and the Disciplines. Indiana University Press, 2010.

• Radano, Ronald Michael, and Tejumola Olaniyan, editors. Audible Empire : Music, Global Politics, Critique. Duke University Press, 2016.

• Olaniyan, Tejumola, and Peter Limb, editors. Taking African Cartoons Seriously : Politics, Satire, and Culture. Michigan State University Press, 2018. 

• Tejumola Olaniyan; Cosmopolitan Interest Rates. Nka 1 May 2020; 2020 (46): 126–135.

• 2017: “African Urban Garrison Architecture: Property, Armed Robbery, Para-Capitalism,” in State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa: Enchantings. Edited by Tejumola Olaniyan. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2017, pp.291-308. 

• 2017: “State and Culture in Africa: The Possibilities of Strangeness,” in State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa: Enchantings. Edited by Tejumola Olaniyan. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2017, pp.1-24. 

• 2017: “Africa, Post-Global: A Reaffirmation,” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 4.2 (April 2017): 323--331. (A response to the collected scholarly responses to my 2016 “paradigm” article). 

• 2017: “Illustrating Fagunwa.” In Adeleke Adeeko and Akin Adesokan, ed., Celebrating Fagunwa: Aspects of African and World Literary History. Ibadan: Bookcraft, 2017. Pp. 193-205. 

• 2016: “African Literature in the Post-Global Age: Provocations on Field Commonsense,” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 3.3 (Sept. 2016): 387-396. Published as “Paradigm” piece, to be responded to in a later issue by selected leading scholars.

• 2015. “African Cultural Studies: Of Travels, Accents, and Epistemologies.” Rethinking African Cultural Production, ed. Ken Harrow & Frieda Ekotto. Indiana UP. Pp. 94-108.

• 2014. “Teaching Notes on Simon Gikandi’s Slavery and the Culture of Taste,” Research in African Literatures 45.4 (2014): 17-23. 

• 2014: “The Fun of Menace: Four Voyages Around the World of Kole Omole,” Art, Parody and Politics: Dele Jegede's Creative Activism, Nigeria and the Transnational Space, ed. Toyin Falola. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. Pp. 77-89. 

• 2011: “The Paddle That Speaks English: Africa, NGOs, and the Archaeology of an Unease,” Research in African Literatures 42.2 (Summer 2011): 46-59. 

• 2011: “On Postcoloniality and Alienation: Abiola Irele’s ‘In Praise of Alienation’ Reconsidered.” 99-112 in Africa in the World and the World in Africa: Essays in Honor of Abiola Irele. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2011. 

• 2009: “Political Critique and Resistance in African Fiction,” 70-86 IN Teaching the African Novel, ed. Gaurav Desai. New York: Modern Language Association of America. 

• 2009: “Thinking Afro-Futures: A Preamble to an Epistemic History.” South Atlantic Quarterly 108.3 (Summer 2009): 449-457). 

• 2009: “Contingencies of Performance: The Gap as Venue,” Theatre Survey 50 (2009): 23-34. 

• 2008: “Of Rations and Rationalities: The World Bank, African Hunger, and Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako.” The Global South Volume 2, Number 2 (Fall 2008): 130-138. 

• 2008: “My Girls.” 121-130 in Fathers and Daughters: An Anthology of Exploration. Ed. Ato Quayson. Oxfordshire, UK: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited. 

• 2006: “Femi Osofisan: Revisionary Notes on Familial Relations” 257-266 IN Christine Matzke, Aderemi Raji-Oyelade & Geoffrey V. Davis, eds. Of Minstrelsy and Masks: The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian Writing. Matatu 33; Amsterdam & New York: Editions Rodopi. 

• 2006: “The Heroic Generals and the Absent Soldiers: Notes on Literature, Development and Governance in Africa Since the Nobel Prize” 45-56 IN Gbemisola Adeoti and Mabel Evwierhoma, eds. After the Nobel Prize: Reflections on African Literature, Governance and Development. Lagos: Association of Nigerian Authors, 2006. 

• 2006: “’Centring the Marginal?’ Notes Toward a Query of Women and Gender in the Drama Femi Osofisan,” 143-151 in Portraits for an Eagle: Essays in Honour of Femi Osofisan, ed. Sola Adeyemi. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies, 2006. 

• 2006: “From Black Aesthetics to Afrocentrism (Or, A Small History of an African and African American Discursive Practice),” West Africa Review Issue 9. http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/war/article/view/277 (9,570 words) 

• 2005: “Introductory Comments” to “Forum: African Literature and Theory,” Research in African Literatures 36.2 (Summer): 95-96. 

• 2004: "Festivals, Ritual, and Drama in Africa," 35-48 IN The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature Volume 1, ed. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 

• 2003: “What is Cultural Patrimony?” 23-35 IN Marvels of the African World: African Cultural Patrimony, New World Connections, and Identities, ed. Niyi Afolabi. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. 

• 2003: “Suicide and Ideology in Nigerian Drama: A Conceptual Investigation,” 100-108 IN Iba: Essays on African Literature in Honour of Oyin Ogunba, ed. Wole Ogundele and Gbemisola Adeoti. Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press. 

• 2003: “Economies of the Interstice,” 53-64 IN Problematizing Blackness: Self-Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States, ed. Percy C. Hintzen and Jean M. Rahier. New York: Routledge. 

• 2003: “Postmodernity, Postcoloniality, and African Studies,” 39-60 IN Postmodernism, Postcoloniality, and African Studies, ed. Zine Magubane. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. 

• 2002: "Modernity and Its Mirages: Wole Soyinka and the African State." Modern Drama 45.3 (2002): 349-57. 

• 2002: "Cartooning Nigerian Anti-Colonial Nationalism: The Work of Akinola Lasekan," 124-140 IN Images & Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, ed. Paul Landau. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.

• 2002: “Agones: The Constitution of a Practice,” 64-87 IN Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora, ed. P. C. Harrison, V. L. Walker II, & G. Edwards. Philadelphia: Temple UP. Reprinted from Scars of Conquest. 

• 2001: “Chinua Achebe and An Archaeology of the Postcolonial African State,” Research in African Literatures 32.3 (Fall): 22-28) 

• 2001: “The Cosmopolitan Nativist: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Antinomies of Postcolonial Modernity,” Research in African Literatures 32.2 (Summer): 76-89. 

• 2000: "Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies," 269-281 in A Companion to Postcolonial Studies, ed. Sangeeta Ray & Henry Schwarz. Oxford, UK & Malden, MA: Basil Blackwell. 

• 1999: "Femi Osofisan: The Form of Uncommon Sense," Research in African Literatures 30.4 (Winter): 74-91. 

• 1999: "Femi Osofisan: Provisional Notes on the Postcolonial Incredible," 174-189 IN (Post)Colonial Stages: Critical & Creative Views on Drama, Theatre, and Performance, ed. Helen Gilbert. Hebden Bridge: Dangaroo

• 1999: "African Theatre," Microsoft Encarta Africana, ed. Henry L. Gates & Kwame A. Appiah. 

• 1999: "Derek Walcott: Liminal Spaces/Substantive Histories" 199- 214, IN Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation ed. Belinda Edmondson. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia. 

• 1998: "The Traditions of Cartooning in Nigeria," Glendora: African Quarterly on the Arts 2.2 (1998): 92-103. 

• 1996: "The Return of the Native Son," Transition: An International Review 72 (Winter 1996): 50-63. 

• 1996: "'Uplift the Race!': Coming to America, Do the Right Thing and the Poetics and Politics of Othering," Cultural Critique 34 (Fall 1996): 91-113. 

• 1996: "Zulu Sofola," Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 157: Twentieth Century Caribbean and Black African Writers 3rd Series, Gale Research Inc. 361-70. 

• 1995: "Afrocentrism," Social Dynamics 21.2 (Summer 1995): 91-105. 

• 1994: "The Role of African American Studies in English Departments Now," Callaloo 17.2 (Summer): 556-558. 

• 1993: "On 'Post-Colonial Discourse': An Introduction," Callaloo 16.4: 743-749.

• 1993: "Corporeal/Discursive Bodies and the Subject: Dream on Monkey Mountain and the Poetics of Identity," Imaginations, Emblems and Expressions: Essays on Latin American,Caribbean, and Continental Culture and Identity, ed. Helen Ryan-Ranson (Bowling Green State UP), 155-171.

• 1992: "Dramatizing Postcoloniality: Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott," Theatre Journal 44.4: 485-499. 

• 1992: "African-American Critical Discourse and the Invention of Cultural Identities," African American Review 26.4: 533-545. 

• 1992: "The Ethics and Poetics of a 'Civilizing Mission': Some Notes on George Lillo's The  London Merchant," English Language Notes XXIX.4 (June): 33-47. 

• 1992: "Narrativizing Postcoloniality: Responsibilities," Public Culture 5.1 (Fall): 47-55. 

• 1990: "God's Weeping Eyes: [Zora Neale] Hurston and the Anti-Patriarchal Form," Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review 5.2 (Summer): 30-45.

• 1990: "Zulu Sofola and Her Sisters: The Example of The Sweet Trap," African Literature, 1988: New Masks, ed. Hal Wylie, Dennis Brutus, and Juris Silenieks. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press. 39-49. 

• 1988: "Soyinka, Rotimi & Achebe as Interpreters of Our History: From Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft," Odu: Journal of West African Studies 33 (January 1988): 201-218. 

• Olaniyan, Tejumola. “The Poetics and Politics of ‘Othering’ : Contemporary African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama and the Invention of Cultural Identities.” Cornell University, 1991.

Tejumola Olaniyan Works