• Oloukoï, C. (manuscript under preparation). black nocturnal, insurgent nightscapes and ecologies in Lagos.

• Oloukoï, C. (2026). Penser, changer, combattre avec bell hooks, Editions Payot

• Oloukoï, C. (forthcoming). “Blinded By The Light: Beyond Enlightenment Thinking” in Cinema and the City in the Era of Planetary Urbanisation, by Nitin Bathla, Silvia Cipelletti, Markus Lähteenmäki and Klearjos E. Papanicolaou (co-eds), De Gruyter Brill.

• Oloukoï, C. (forthcoming). “Filming on an African Rhythm: Safi Faye, Cinematic Griot,” in Black Feminist Theories, Carole Boyce Davies, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Janell C, Hobson, Christen Smith (co-eds), Bloomsbury Academic. [authorized reprint of a previous commissioned essay for Air Afrique nº1, 2023]

• Oloukoï, C. (2018). “Precarious Gentrification: Dreading the Night while ‘Taking Back the City’ in Johannesburg,'' in Exploring nightlife: Space, Society and Governance, Eldridge, A. & Nofre, J. (eds), Rowman & Littlefield. 

• Oloukoï, C. (forthcoming). “On Lagos night/life and queer inhabitation(s)” special issue “Blackness and Inhabitation,” edited by Aicha Diallo, Alana Osbourne and Asha Best, Public Culture

• Bergamelli, A. A., Oloukoï, C., & Emmanuel, E. (2025). On Screening Sambizanga in Lagos: The Monangambee Film Collective in Conversation. Black Camera, 17(1), 143-154.

• Oloukoï, C. (2022). “Archive fetishes: did the fire read the stories it burnt?”World Records, 7 (5). 

• Oloukoï, C. (2016). « La marche urbaine : un outil pour appréhender les émotions à Johannesburg ? », Les Carnets de géographes, n°9 

• Oloukoï, C. (2016). « Nuits, objets de peurs et de désirs à Maboneng »,  Sociétés politiques comparées, n°38, 2016. 

• Oloukoï, C., Guinard, P. (2016). « La nuit à Maboneng (Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud): un front urbain entre sécurisation, marchandisation et contestation. » L’Espace Politique, (30).

2026‍ ‍

[forthcoming] “A Page of Madness.” Notebook, MUBI, 2026

[liner notes] “Yam Daabo: On Idrissa Ouedraogo’s Humanist Cinema,” Criterion, World Cinema box set #5

2025‍ ‍

“Labouring Acts: On Karimah Ashadu.” Film London, 2025 Jarman Awards

“Riotous Frequencies,” for Nigeria Imaginary, Venice Biennale Exposition Catalog, MOWAA Publishing

“The Night Otherwise: Nocturnal Space in Japanese Edo Prints and Rājput Court Paintings,”  The Curationist, August 2025.

“États-Unis : pour la désobéissance sur les campus,” La Déferlante, nº18, May 2025

2024‍ ‍

“What I am Reading Now…” A space in-between, #4, Cooper Gallery, October 2024. 

“The African Gaze”Metrograph, September 2024

“On View: An Artist Who Uses Plants as Camouflage,”T Magazine / New York Times, February 2024

2023‍ ‍

“Filming on an African Rhythm: Safi Faye, Cinematic Griot,”Air Afrique

“A World of Nightwalkers,” Three Essays on Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s The Bloodettes, Brixton Community Cinema

2022‍ ‍

[Exhibition maps, catalog maps] “Fela’s Lagos”, Philharmonie de Paris’ exhibition Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Rebellion Afrobeat at the Cité de la Musique.

“Playing in the Dark, Watery Experiments: Curatorial Essay,” Canyon Cinema, October 2022

“Chrystel Oloukoï on Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM,” Program booklet for Open City Documentary Festival, London, September 2022

[interview] “In the Black Fantastic: A Conversation with Ekow Eshun,” BFI, July 2022

Art and Craft: Neptune Frost, Film Comment, June 2022

“A Chorus for the Revolution: On Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga”Metrograph, June 2022

“Rosine Mbakam: The Art of Non-fiction”, April 2022, for the retrospective organized by Open City Documentary Festival and Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image (BIMI)

“Dakan, 25 years after: the queer landmark that haunts African film”, BFI, March 2022

2021‍ ‍

“Survival is in the Mouth”. Grief & Disaster Storytelling in This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection, Program Booklet for Edges of Belief, curated by Emily Wright, December 2021

“Bantú Mama looks at the African diaspora through a contemporary lens” Sight & Sound, November 2021

“Six African films not to miss at the LFF”, BFI, October 2021

Where to begin with Ousmane Sembène? BFI, June 2021

[video essay] The Cinema of Kelly Reichardt, Bird’s Eye View / MUBI, June 2021

[interview] Life before the Moomins: behind the scenes of a new biopic of creator Tove Jansson, BFI, March 2021

“Five recommendations at BFI Flare 2021”, BFI, March 2021

[video essay] Women, Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Cinema, BFI, March 2021

“The Watermelon Woman at 25: the Black lesbian classic that wears its brilliance lightly”, BFI, February 2021

[liner notes] Leontine Sagan, a life in movement: careful libertinage and kaleidoscopic selves, BFI DVD, February 2021

“MLK/FBI is one of these stories America loves to tell about itself,”Sight & Sound, January 2021

2020‍ ‍

[audio][transcript] “Audio review of TIME: How Garrett Bradley’s temporal symphony clocks the cruelty of mass incarceration”, BFI, October 2020 

“Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) charts broken dreams of migration in an indomitable Lagos”, BFI, October 2020

“Lovers Rock finds respite and rapture in a Black London house party”, BFI, October 2020

“The Eagle’s Nest is a funny, cynical take on the tired trope of African desires of migration”, TBB, October 2020

[interview] Olivier Assoua, director of The Eagle’s Nest, The British Blacklist, October 2020