Se doctoró en lingüística suajili en la Universidad de Yale.

• The position of Kiswahili in Kenya, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, 1981
• Marejeo, Kenya Lit. Bureau, 1986
• Wingu Jeusi, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., 1987
• Hukumu, , Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., Longman Kenya, 1992
• Ushairi wa Abdilatif Abdalla: Sautiya Utetezi, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., Dar es Salaam University Press (DUP), 1992.
• Traditional Medicine in Africa, Edited by Sindiga, Isaac, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C. and Kanunah, M. P., East African Educational Publishers, 1995
• Mke Mwanza, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., East Africa Education Publishers, 1997
• Reforming Higher Education in Kenya: Challenges, Lessons and Opportunities, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., Kenya August 2004
• African Universities in the Twenty-first Century, Edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Adebayo Olukoshi, Chapter 5: Public Universities, Private Funding: The Challenges in East Africa, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., 2005

• (en inglés) Academics streaming out of Africa
• (en inglés) Learning difficulties in Africa