He has written extensively in African history and politics, including "La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun" (Paris: Karthala, 1996). "On the Postcolony" was published in Paris in 2000 in French and the English translation was published by the University of California Press, Berkeley, in 2001. In 2015, Wits University Press published a new, African edition. He has an A1 rating from the National Research Foundation.