• From Citizen to Refugee (Francis Pinter Ltd., 1973)
• Myth of Population Control. (Monthly Review Press, 1973)
• Politics and Class Formation in Uganda. (Monthly Review Press, 1976).
• Imperialism and Fascism in Uganda. (Africa World Press, Inc., 1983).
• And Fire Does not Always Beget Ash: Critical Reflections on the NRM. (1996).
• Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. (Princeton University Press, 1996).
• Crisis and Reconstruction -- African Perspectives: Two Lectures (with Colin Leys). (Nordiska Afrikainsinstutet, 1998).
• Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk: Comparative essays on Rights and Culture. ed. (St. Martin's Press, 2000).
• Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal. December 14-18, 1998, page 2
• Report of the CODESRIA Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo. September, 1997. Text of report submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations
• When Does a Settler Become a Native? Reflections of the Colonial Roots of Citizenship in Equatorial and South Africa. Text of Inaugural Lecture as A. C. Jordan Professor of African Studies, University of Cape Town, Lecture Theatre 1, Education Building, Middle Campus, Wednesday 13 May 1998, 8.15 p.m.
• When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and Genocide in Rwanda. (Princeton Univ. Press, 2001).
• Good Muslim Bad Muslim: America, The Cold War, and the Roots of Terror. (New York: Pantheon/Random House, 2004).
• Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror. (Pantheon, 2009)

• Faculty Profile at Columbia University

Interviews

• "You (and I) got Darfur Wrong" - radio interview with Watson Institute's Radio Open Source, April 3rd, 2009
• "Politics and humanitarianism" - an interview with the Boston Globe, March 22, 2009
• Video Interview with PBS's Wide Angle, episode "Underground Zimbabwe", February 11th, 2009
• New US Strategy for Sudan Rejects Hawkish Approach - video by Democracy Now!

Audio

• Saviors and Survivors, SOAS lecture recorded on 3rd June 2009.

Texts

• When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, published by Princeton University Press, 2001, Introductory Chapter.
• * " The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency", in London Review of Books, Vol. 29, No. 5, 8 March 2007.