• 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