| Understanding xenophobia in South Africa: The individual, the state and the international system O Tella Insight on Africa 8 (2), 142-158, 2016 | 127 | 2016 |
| Hegemony or survival-South Africa's soft power and the challenge of xenophobia O Tella, O Ogunnubi Africa Insight 44 (3), 145-163, 2014 | 60 | 2014 |
| Boko Haram terrorism and counter-terrorism: The soft power context O Tella Journal of Asian and African Studies 53 (6), 815-829, 2018 | 47 | 2018 |
| South Africa in BRICS: The regional power’s soft power and soft balancing O Tella Politikon 44 (3), 387-403, 2017 | 34 | 2017 |
| Wielding soft power in strategic regions: an analysis of China’s power of attraction in Africa and the Middle East O Tella Africa Review 8 (2), 133-144, 2016 | 29 | 2016 |
| Attractions and Limitations of Nigeria's Soft Power O Tella Journal of Global Analysis 7 (2), 109-128, 2017 | 28 | 2017 |
| A declining or stable image? An assessment of the United States' soft power in Africa O Tella South African Journal of International Affairs 23 (2), 151-166, 2016 | 26 | 2016 |
| Framing South Africa’s soft power through non-state sources O Ogunnubi, O Tella Strategic Analysis 41 (5), 478-495, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| Africa's soft power: philosophies, political values, foreign policies and cultural exports O Tella Taylor & Francis, 2021 | 24 | 2021 |
| Is Nigeria a soft power state? O Tella Social Dynamics 44 (2), 376-394, 2018 | 23 | 2018 |
| Space as a fulcrum of Nigeria's external relations and regional hegemony O Tella Space Policy 46, 46-52, 2018 | 20 | 2018 |
| Agenda 2063 and its implications for Africa’s soft power O Tella Journal of Black Studies 49 (7), 714-730, 2018 | 20 | 2018 |
| Boko Haram terrorism and Nigeria’s security dilemma: rethinking the state’s capacity AO Akinola, O Tella International Journal of Innovative Social Sciences and Humanities Research …, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Currencies, constraints and contradictions of South Africa’s soft power O Tella Journal of Asian and African Studies 53 (3), 420-436, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
| AFRICOM: hard or soft power initiative? O Tella African Security Review 25 (4), 393-406, 2016 | 16 | 2016 |
| Internal, regional and external impediments to Nigeria and South Africa’s hegemonic competence in Africa O Tella Nigeria-South Africa relations and regional hegemonic competence, 3-23, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| Nigeria-South Africa relations and regional hegemonic competence O Tella Springer, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| From ivory towers to ebony towers: Transforming humanities curricula in South Africa, Africa and African-American Studies O Tella, S Motala Jacana Media, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
| South African higher education: The paradox of soft power and xenophobia O Tella The political economy of xenophobia in Africa, 81-92, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| Cultural adherence and the nexus between women empowerment and millennium development goals in Africa O Akinola Adeoye, O Tella Glob. Adv. Res. J. Arts Humanit 2, 103-110, 2013 | 10 | 2013 |
