| Ambiguous pleasures: Sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi R Spronk Berghahn Books, 2012 | 249 | 2012 |
| Exploring the middle classes in Nairobi: from modes of production to modes of sophistication R Spronk African Studies Review 57 (1), 93-114, 2014 | 103 | 2014 |
| Sex, sexuality and negotiating Africanness in Nairobi R Spronk Africa 79 (4), 500-519, 2009 | 78 | 2009 |
| Sexuality and subjectivity: erotic practices and the question of bodily sensations R Spronk Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 22 (1), 3-21, 2014 | 68 | 2014 |
| Media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love in middle-class Nairobi R Spronk ChicagoUniversity of Chicago Press, 2009 | 64 | 2009 |
| Female sexuality in Nairobi: Flawed or favoured? R Spronk Culture, Health & Sexuality 7 (3), 267-277, 2005 | 61 | 2005 |
| The idea of African men: dealing with the cultural contradictions of sex in academia and in Kenya R Spronk Culture, health & sexuality 16 (5), 504-517, 2014 | 58 | 2014 |
| Sexular practice: Notes on an ethnography of secularism O Verkaaik, R Spronk Focaal 2011 (59), 83-88, 2011 | 52 | 2011 |
| Ambiguous Pleasures: sexuality and new self-definitions in Nairobi R Spronk | 45 | 2006 |
| Ethnicizing sexuality: An analysis of research practices in the Netherlands W Krebbekx, R Spronk, A M’charek Ethnic and Racial Studies 40 (4), 636-655, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
| Beyond pain, towards pleasure in the study of sexuality in Africa R Spronk Sexuality in Africa magazine 4 (3), 3-6, 2007 | 35 | 2007 |
| Readings in sexualities from Africa R Spronk, T Hendriks Indiana University Press, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
| Invisible desires in Ghana and Kenya: same-sex erotic experiences in cross-sex oriented lives R Spronk Sexualities 21 (5-6), 883-898, 2018 | 23 | 2018 |
| Afterword. The (Idea of) African Middle Classes: Theorizing from Africa R Spronk Middle classes in Africa: Changing lives and conceptual challenges, 311-326, 2018 | 22 | 2018 |
| Labour of love: Secrecy and kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in the Netherlands A Bakuri, R Spronk, R van Dijk Ethnography 21 (3), 394-412, 2020 | 21 | 2020 |
| Africa’s Legends: digital technologies, aesthetics and middle-class aspirations in Ghanaian games and comics T Pijnaker, R Spronk Critical African Studies 9 (3), 327-349, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| Frontiers and pioneers in (the study of) queer experiences in Africa Introduction R Spronk, SN Nyeck Africa 91 (3), 388-397, 2021 | 19 | 2021 |
| Verbalizing sensations: making sense of embodied sexual experiences M Bosman, R Spronk, G Kuipers Qualitative sociology 42, 411-430, 2019 | 17 | 2019 |
| Structures, feelings and savoir faire: Ghana's middle classes in the making R Spronk Africa 90 (3), 470-488, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| " Intimacy is the name of the game": media and the praxis of sexual knowledge in Nairobi R Spronk Anthropologica, 145-158, 2011 | 16 | 2011 |
