“The Stones Ethnographers Trip Over:  Thoughts on Colin Turnbull's The Forest People.”  Translated into German as “Die Stolpersteine der Ethnographen," in Wegmarken:  Eine Bibliotek der Ethnologische Imagination.  Trickster Jahrbuch.  Munich:  Peter Hammer Verlag, 1998, pp. 22-28.

"Paul Berliner's The Soul of Mbira Twenty Years On:  A Retrospect."  African Music 7, no. 3 (1996):  91-95.

"Music and Historical Consciousness among the Dagbamba of Ghana," in Enchanting Powers:  Music in the World’s Religions.  Edited by Lawrence Sullivan.  Cambridge, MA:  Center for the Study of World Religions and Harvard University Press, 1997, pp. 91-120.  Also in Approaches to African Musics.  Edited by Enrique Cámara de Landa and Silvia Martínez García.  Valladolid: University of Valladolid, Centro Buendia, 2006, pp. 137-68.

“Spiritual Foundations of Dagbamba Religion and Culture.”  Authorized version of the essay.

"Goonji (Fiddle) Music in Dagbon."  Notes and Recording information for "Master Fiddlers of Dagbon."  Rounder Records 5086 (2001).

"Dagbamba Drumming Music."   Notes and Recording information for "Master Drummers of Dagbon, vols 1 and 2."  Rounder Records 5016 (1984, 1992) and 5046 (1992).

"William and Abena, an excerpt from Hustling Is Not Stealing."  Introduction by Benj DeMott.  First of the Month 6, no. 1 (winter 2004), 15-17.

"A Bad Sickness, an excerpt from Hustling Is Not Stealing."  Introduction by Benj DeMott.  First of the Month 4, no. 1 (6.1.2002), 17-19

"Tales of Groove," from Exchange Is Not Robbery:  More Stories of an African Bar Girl.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 232-42.

"Issahaku and the Fulani Thieves," from Exchange Is Not Robbery:  More Stories of an African Bar Girl.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 214-21.

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