Following are titles published by the department faculty.

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2006
Nkiru Nzegwu. Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY series in feminist philosophy).

2003
Isidore Okpewho. Call Me By My Rightful Name. Trenton: Africa World Press.

Isidore Okpewho, Ed. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nkiru Nzegwu. Olokoto: Songs of Chima. Lekki, Nigeria: Pendulum Art Gallery. [Exh. cat.]

2002
Michael West. The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1999
Nkiru Nzegwu. Ed. Contemporary Textures: Multidimensionality in Nigerian Art. Binghamton: ISSA.

Isidore Okpewho, Ed. The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities. Edited with Carole B. Davies and Ali A. Mazrui. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Michael West, Ed. Out of One, Many Africas: Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa. Edited with William G. Martin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

1998
Nkiru Nzegwu, Ed. Issues in Contemporary African Art. Binghamton: ISSA.

Isidore Okpewho. Once Upon a Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1993
Isidore Okpewho. Tides. London: Longman. Winner of the (British) Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa.

Nkiru Nzegwu. Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects: The Legacy of African American Craft. Wilberforce, Ohio: National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, 2-14, 24-106.

Isidore Okpewho. Letteratura Orale dell’ Africa Subsahariana. A macropedia project. Milan: Jaca Books.

1992
Isidore Okpewho. African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Nkiru Nzegwu. The Creation...Of The African Canadian Odyssey. The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada. [Exh. cat.]

Nkiru Nzegwu. Celebrating African Identity: Politics and Icons of Representation. A Space, Toronto, Canada. [Exh. cat.]

1990
Isidore Okpewho, Ed. The Oral Performance in Africa. Ibadan: Spectrum Books. Runner-up, Nigerian Newsprint Manufacturing Company Prize.

Isidore Okpewho. A Portrait of the Artist as a Scholar. A professorial inaugural lecture. Ikeja: Longman Nigeria Ltd. Ed.

1989
Nkiru Nzegwu. Rural Reflections. Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, Nigeria. [Exh. cat.]

Nkiru Nzegwu. Pushing The Limits Of Vision. Zegu-Nigeria. [Exh. cat.]

1988
Akbar Muhammad, Ed. Racism, Sexism, and the World-System. Edited with J. Smith, J. Collins and T.K. Hopkins. Westport: Greenwood Press.

1985
Isidore Okpewho, Ed. The Heritage of African Poetry: An Anthology of Oral and Written Poetry. London: Longman.

1983
Isidore Okpewho. Myth in Africa: A Study of Its Aesthetic and Cultural Relevance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1979
Isidore Okpewho. The Epic in Africa: Toward a Poetics of the Oral Performance. New York: Columbia University Press.

1976
Isidore Okpewho. The Last Duty. London: Longman. Winner (in ms.), African Arts Prize for Literature (UCLA African Arts Center), 1972. Translated into French, Russian, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian.

1970
Isidore Okpewho. The Victims. London: Longman. American editions: Garden City: Doubleday Anchor, 1971. Washington, DC: Three Continents, 1980.