| Africa since independence P Nugent Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012 | 606 | 2012 |
| Big men, small boys and politics in Ghana: Power, ideology and the burden of history, 1982-1994 P Nugent Burns & Oates, 1995 | 442 | 1995 |
| Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens of the Ghana-Togo Frontier: the lie of the borderlands since 1914 P Nugent James Currey Ltd, 2003 | 341 | 2003 |
| African Boundaries: barriers, conduits and opportunities P Nugent, A Asiwaju London: Pinter, 1996 | 299 | 1996 |
| Winners, losers and also rans: money, moral authority and voting patterns in the Ghana 2000 election P Nugent African Affairs 100 (400), 405-428, 2001 | 189 | 2001 |
| Ethnicity in Ghana: the limits of invention N Na Springer, 2016 | 188 | 2016 |
| Making nations, creating strangers: States and citizenship in Africa P Nugent, D Hammett, S Dorman Brill, 2007 | 177 | 2007 |
| Living in the past: urban, rural and ethnic themes in the 1992 and 1996 elections in Ghana P Nugent The Journal of Modern African Studies 37 (2), 287-319, 1999 | 155 | 1999 |
| States and social contracts in Africa P Nugent New Left Review 63, 35-68, 2010 | 138 | 2010 |
| The successful Ghana election of 2008: a convenient myth? H Jockers, D Kohnert, P Nugent The Journal of Modern African Studies 48 (1), 95-115, 2010 | 114 | 2010 |
| Ethnicity in Ghana: A comparative perspective C Lentz, P Nugent Ethnicity in Ghana, 1-28, 2000 | 99 | 2000 |
| Banknotes and symbolic capital P Nugent Votes, Money and Violence, 252-275, 2007 | 92 | 2007 |
| Border towns and cities in comparative perspective P Nugent A companion to border studies, 557-572, 2012 | 89 | 2012 |
| Ethnicity as an explanatory factor in the Ghana 2000 elections P Nugent African Issues 29 (1-2), 2-7, 2001 | 80 | 2001 |
| Arbitrary lines and the people's minds: a dissenting view on colonial boundaries in West Africa P Nugent | 79 | 1993 |
| Introduction: The paradox of African boundaries P Nugent, AI Asiwaju African boundaries: Barriers, conduits and opportunities, 1-18, 1996 | 76 | 1996 |
| Respacing Africa U Engel, P Nugent Brill, 2009 | 72 | 2009 |
| African Cities: competing claims on urban spaces F Locatelli, P Nugent Brill, 2009 | 71 | 2009 |
| Introduction: Citizenship and its casualties in Africa S Dorman, D Hammett, P Nugent Making Nations, Creating Strangers, 1-26, 2007 | 65 | 2007 |
| Putting the history back into ethnicity: enslavement, religion, and cultural brokerage in the construction of Mandinka/Jola and Ewe/Agotime identities in West Africa, c. 1650–1930 P Nugent Comparative Studies in Society and History 50 (4), 920-948, 2008 | 56 | 2008 |
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