- "African Children at Risk" (2004)
- "In the Belly of History" (2009)
- "The Black Man's Guide to Understanding the Black Woman" (2009)
- "The White Woman's Guide to Understanding the Black Man" (2010)
- "When the Stars are Gone: A Novel of the Haitian Revolution" (2012)
- "Love is All That Matter" (2014)
- "The Other Side of the Story: A Novel of the Liberian Civil War" (2016)
- "The Love that Dare not Speak its Name" (2018)
- "Until We Are Free: A Novel of the American Revolution" (2020)
- "The Last Butterfly: A Novel of the Rwandan Genocide" (2022)
Essays and articles:
- "The Crisis in African Education" (2003)
- "The Plight of African Children" (2005)
- "The Role of the Black Intellectual in the 21st Century" (2007)
- "The African Renaissance: A Dream Deferred?" (2010)
- "The State of Black America: A Midterm Report" (2012)
- "The Challenges Facing the Global South" (2014)
- "The Black Lives Matter Movement: A New Civil Rights Movement?" (2016)
- "The Future of Pan-Africanism" (2018)
- "The Black Woman: Our Unsung Hero" (2020)
- "The African Diaspora: A Force for Good in the World" (2022)