Books:
- An Introduction to West African Literature (1953)
- The Yoruba Tradition (1960)
- The Western Nigerian Traditional Rulers and Chiefs (1962)
- Ijala: a form of Yoruba poetry (1964)
- Nigeria: Promise or Predicament (1965)
- Odu: journal of West African studies, Issues 1-16 (1965–1970)
- Culture, Society and Language (1966)
- West African Languages in Education (1967)
- Yoruba Orthography (1967)
- Nigerian Cultural Integration: the problems of language and indigenization (1968)
- The development of Nigerian prose in English (1970)
- The sociology of language in West Africa (1972)
- Yoruba Prosody (1973)
- Politics in Nigeria: 1960-1970 (1973)
- Yoruba Language Texts: a book of Yoruba prose and verse (1974)
- The Nigerian Press (1976)
- West African Literatures: an introductory survey (1976)
- Oral Poetry in Nigeria (1976)
- Essays in African Literature (1976)
- Nigerian Literatures: a general survey (1980)
- The Teaching of English in Nigeria: a historical survey (1981)
- Essays in African Studies: a festschrift in honour of Professor T.A. Fashole-Luke (1981)
- Culture and Development in Nigeria (1982)
- The Language Factor in National Development: the Tanzanian experience (1983)
- Language in Nigeria: the need for a national language policy (1985)
- The Role of the University in Development: the Nigerian experience (1985)
- Language Policy and Planning in West Africa (1986)
- The Nigerian Media: a critical perspective (1987)
- Language Policy and Unity: the Nigerian experience (1987)
- Mass Media and Political Power in West Africa (1988)
- The Language Question in Nigeria: implications for national development (1989)
- The Language Question in Nigeria: reflections on the National Language Policy (1990)
- The Mass Media and African Society: a critical examination of the Nigerian Experience (1990)
- West African Literatures: a syllabus (1990)
- Culture and Society in Nigeria (1991)
- West African Literatures: an introductory critical study (1992)
- Education and National Unity in Nigeria (1993)
- Nigerian National Bibliography: a cumulative list (1994)
- Language Planning and Language Policy: the Nigerian experience (1994)
- Nigerian Oral Literatures: a typology (1994)
- Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures: 1-16 (1994–2000)
- The History of the University of Lagos, 1962-1982 (1995)
- The Literature of the Yoruba: a descriptive analysis (1996)
- Fifty Years of Nigerian Literature: a celebration of creativity (1997)
- The Life and Works of D.O. Fagunwa (1998)
- Culture, Society and Communication in Africa: selected essays (1999)
- The Contribution of Nigerian Journalists to National Development (1999)
- The Language Factor in National Development in Nigeria: a historical analysis (2000)
- The Literature of Nigeria: a descriptive analysis (2001)
- Perspectives on Nigerian Oral Literatures: a festschrift in honour of Okunola Awobuluyi (2002)
- The Cultural Heritage of Nigeria (2003)
- The Political Economy of Nigerian Literatures (2004)
- The Cultural Heritage of the Yoruba People (2005)
- The Development of Nigerian Literature (2006)
- The Language Question in Nigeria: a re-examination (2007)