Plays
Marching for Fausa (Royal Court Theatre, 1993)
Resurrections in the Season of the Longest Drought (Talawa Theatre Company, 1994)
Two Horsemen (Gate Theatre, 1994)
Death Catches the Hunter (Battersea Arts Centre, 1995)
Me and the Boys (Finborough Theatre, 1995)
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (Royal Court Theatre, 1997)
Thieves Like Us (Southwark Playhouse, 1998)
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1999)
Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D (Traverse Theatre, 1999)
Brixton Stories (Royal Shakespeare Company, Tricycle Theatre, 2001)
Yerma (Edinburgh Festival, 2001)
Novels
The Man Who Came in From the Back of Beyond (1991)
The Sympathetic Undertaker (1991)
The Street (1999)
Burma Boy (2007)
Yorùbá Boy Running (2024)
Film and Television
Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)
Shuga (2013)
Fifty (2015)
Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat (2020)
Blood Sisters (2022)
Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman (2022)