| Kenya: The struggle for democracy GR Murunga, SW Nasong'o Zed Books, 2007 | 183 | 2007 |
| Bent on self-destruction: The Kibaki regime in Kenya GR Murunga, SW Nasong'o Journal of Contemporary African Studies 24 (1), 1-28, 2006 | 155 | 2006 |
| Negotiating new rules of the game: Social movements, civil society and the Kenyan transition SW Nasong’o Kenya: The struggle for democracy, 19-57, 2007 | 82 | 2007 |
| Contending political paradigms in Africa: rationality and the politics of democratization in Kenya and Zambia SW Nasong'o (No Title), 2005 | 58 | 2005 |
| Political transition without transformation: The dialectic of liberalization without democratization in Kenya and Zambia SW Nasong'o African Studies Review 50 (1), 83-107, 2007 | 50 | 2007 |
| Women in Kenya’s politics of transition and democratization SW Nasong’o, TO Ayot Kenya: The struggle for democracy, 164-196, 2007 | 49 | 2007 |
| Prospects for democracy in Kenya SW Nasong’o, GR Murunga Kenya: The struggle for democracy, 3-16, 2007 | 36 | 2007 |
| Intellectuals and the democratisation process in Kenya MN Amutabi, GR Murunga, SW Nasong'o Kenya: The struggle for democracy, 197-226, 2007 | 27 | 2007 |
| Kenya: The struggle for democracy SW Nasong'o, GR Murunga Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008 | 24 | 2008 |
| Lack of consensus on constitutive fundamentals: Roots of the Sudanese civil war and prospects for settlement SW Nasong'o, GR Murunga African and Asian studies 4 (1-2), 51-82, 2005 | 22 | 2005 |
| Resources allocation and the crisis of political conflicts in Africa: beyond the inter-ethnic hatred thesis WS Nasong’o Conflict in Contemporary Africa. Nairobi: Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, 2000 | 21 | 2000 |
| Regime change and succession politics in Africa: five decades of misrule MN Amutabi, SW Nasong'o Routledge, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| Revisiting ‘the two faces of civil society’in constitutional reform in Kenya WS Nasong’o Kenya: The Struggle for a New Constitutional Order, 97-118, 2014 | 14 | 2014 |
| From political dictatorship to authoritarian economism: plural politics and free market reforms in Africa SW Nasong'o Journal of Third World Studies 21 (2), 107-125, 2004 | 11 | 2004 |
| Civil society and African democratization: The flip side of the coin SW Nasong’o Studies in Democratization 1 (1), 3-16, 2002 | 10 | 2002 |
| Gendering African social spaces: Women, power, and cultural expressions T Falola, SW Nasong'o Carolina Academic Press, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| Women and economic liberalization in Kenya: The impact and challenges of globalization S Nasong'o | 9 | 2005 |
| Kenya's Multiparty Elections in a Comparative East African Perspective SW Nasong'o Electoral Politics in Kenya. Nairobi: Claripress Limited, 2002 | 9 | 2002 |
| The Illusion of Democratic Governance in Kenya SW Nasong’o The Politics and Policies of Sub-Saharan Africa, Lanham, MD: University …, 2001 | 7 | 2001 |
| Ecological Roots of Social Conflict in Kenya: Pastoralism, Land, and the Development Paradox SW Nasong’o Perspectives on African Environment, Science and Technology, 225-247, 2012 | 6 | 2012 |