The Transistor Radio (radio play) 1972
Bride by Return (radio play) 1973
Tabari (children's fiction) 1973
Tambari in Dukana (children's fiction) 1973
Songs in a Time of War (poetry) 1985
Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English (novel) 1985
A Forest of Flowers (short stories) 1986
Basi and Company: A Modern African Folktale (novel) 1987
Prisoners of Jebs (novel) 1988
Adaku and Other Stories (short stories) 1989
Four Farcical Plays (plays) 1989
On a Darkling Plain: An Account of the Nigerian Civil War (novel) 1989
Nigeria: The Brink of Disaster (essays) 1991
Pita Dumbrok's Prison (novel) 1991
Similia: Essays on Anomic Nigeria (essays) 1991
The Singing Anthill: Ogoni Folk Tales (short stories) 1991
Genocide in Nigeria: The Ogoni Tragedy (nonfiction) 1992
A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary (diary) 1995