PROSE

African Prose

(1) Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta

(2) Unexpected Joy at Dawn by Alex Agyei-Agyiri (2018 edition)

Non-African Prose

(1) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

(2) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë  

*WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

WAEC/NECO LITERATURE TEXTS FOR 2021 – 2025 DRAMA

African Drama

(1) Let me Die Alone by John K. Kargbo    

(2) The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka

(1) “Black Woman” by Leopold Sedar Senghor

Non-African Drama

(1) Look Back in Anger by John Osborne

(2) Fences by August Wilson  

WAEC/NECO LITERATURE TEXTS FOR 2021 – 2025 POETRY

African Poetry

(2) “The Leader and the Led” by Niyi Osundare

(3) “The Grieved Lands” by Agostinho Neto

(4) “The Song of the Women of my Land” by Oumar Farouk Sesay  

(5) “Raider of the Treasure Trove” by Lade Wosornu

(6) “A Government Driver on his Retirement” by Onu Chibuike

Non-African Poetry

(1) “The Good-Morrow” by John Donne

(2)  “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou

(3)  “The Journey of the Magi” by T. S. Eliot

(4)  “Do not Go Gentle into the Good Night” by Dylan Thomas

Analysis and themes

(5)  “Binsey Poplars (Felled 1879)” by G.M. Hopkins

(6)  “Bat” by David H. Lawrence

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