Drama

• The Swamp Dwellers
• The Lion and the Jewel
• The Trials of Brother Jero
• A Dance of the Forests
• The Strong Breed
• Before the Blackout
• Kongi's Harvest
• The Road
• The Bacchae of Euripides
• Madmen and Specialists
• Camwood on the Leaves
• Jero's Metamorphosis
• Death and the King's Horseman
• Opera Wonyosi
• Requiem for a Futurologist
• A Play of Giants
• A Scourge of Hyacinths (radio play)
• From Zia, with Love
• The Beatification of the Area Boy
• King Baabu
• Etiki Revu Wetin

Novel

• The Interpreters
• Season of Anomie

Memoir

• The Man Died : Prison Notes
• Aké: The Years of Childhood
• Isara: A Voyage around Essay
• Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: a memoir 1946-65
• You Must Set Forth at Dawn

Kumpulan puisi

• A Big Airplane Crashed Into The Earth (original title Poems from Prison)
• Idanre and other poems
• Mandela's Earth and other poems
• Ogun Abibiman
• Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known
• Abiku
• "After the Deluge"
• "Telephone Conversation"

Esei

• Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Transition
• Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture
• Myth, Literature and the African World
• "From Drama and the African World View"

• The Burden of Memory The Muse of Forgiveness

Filem

• Culture in Transition
• Blues For a Prodigal