| Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda J Willis Oxford University Press, 1993 | 293 | 1993 |
| Potent Brews. A Social History of Alcohol in East Africa 1850-1999 J Willis | 256 | 2002 |
| Democracy and its discontents: understanding Kenya's 2013 elections N Cheeseman, G Lynch, J Willis Journal of Eastern African Studies 8 (1), 2-24, 2014 | 199 | 2014 |
| Decentralisation in Kenya: the governance of governors N Cheeseman, G Lynch, J Willis Journal of Modern African Studies 54 (1), 1-35, 2016 | 189 | 2016 |
| Digital dilemmas: The unintended consequences of election technology N Cheeseman, G Lynch, J Willis Democratization 25 (8), 1397-1418, 2018 | 132 | 2018 |
| Pwani C Kenya? Memory, documents and secessionist politics in coastal Kenya J Willis, G Gona African Affairs 112 (446), 48-71, 2013 | 105 | 2013 |
| Kenya’s 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual? N Cheeseman, K Kanyinga, G Lynch, M Ruteere, J Willis Journal of Eastern African Studies 13 (2), 215-234, 2019 | 102 | 2019 |
| The makings of a tribe: Bondei identities and histories J Willis The journal of African history 33 (2), 191-208, 1992 | 88 | 1992 |
| The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa N Cheeseman, G Lynch, J Willis | 71* | 2021 |
| Marginalization and political participation on the Kenya coast: the 2013 elections J Willis, N Chome Journal of Eastern African Studies 8 (1), 115-134, 2014 | 58 | 2014 |
| Ghana: The ebbing power of incumbency N Cheeseman, G Lynch, J Willis Journal of Democracy 28 (2), 92-104, 2017 | 52 | 2017 |
| Drinking crisis? Change and continuity in cultures of drinking in Sub-Saharan Africa J Willis Afr. J. Clin. Exp. Microbiol, 2-15, 2006 | 50 | 2006 |
| Islam, politics, and violence on the Kenya coast H Mwakimako, J Willis Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa, 428-439, 2022 | 44 | 2022 |
| From peace campaigns to peaceocracy: Elections, order and authority in Africa G Lynch, N Cheeseman, J Willis African Affairs 118 (473), 603-627, 2019 | 43 | 2019 |
| ‘Beer used to belong to older men’: Drink and authority among the Nyakyusa of Tanzania J Willis Africa 71 (3), 373-390, 2001 | 42 | 2001 |
| The northern kayas of the Mijikenda: A gazetteer, and an historical reassessment J Willis AZANIA: Journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa 31 (1), 75-98, 1996 | 41 | 1996 |
| Tradition, tribe, and state in Kenya: the Mijikenda Union, 1945–1980 J Willis, G Gona Comparative Studies in Society and History 55 (2), 448-473, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| The nature of a mission community: the universities' mission to Central Africa in Bonde J Willis Missionary Encounters, 128-152, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
| ‘We changed the laws’: Electoral practice and malpractice in Sudan since 1953 J Willis, A El Battahani African Affairs 109 (435), 191-212, 2010 | 37 | 2010 |
| Violence, authority, and the state in the Nuba Mountains of Condominium Sudan J Willis The Historical Journal 46 (1), 89-114, 2003 | 37 | 2003 |
Nic CheesemanUniversity of BirminghamVerified email at bham.ac.uk
