Did you know that the new literature-in-English texts
or syllabus for WAEC/WASSCE 2021- 2025 is out? Yes, the reading texts for poems,
plays and novels you will need for the academic sessions that will span 2021
till 2025 has been released by WAEC.
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As we are still in 2020, the new literature texts for
WAEC takes effect next year 2021. This means that if you’re a teacher, you can
start teaching students in SSS1 and SSS2 the new texts. As for the SS3 students,
they will still be taught using the 2016-2020 syllabus as it expires this year.
Literature
Texts For WAEC/WASSCE 2021 – 2025
Drama Text
for contextual questions in the Objective
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
African
Poetry
“Black Woman” by Leopard Sedar
Senghor
“The Leader and the Led” by Niyi
Osundare
“The Green Lands” by Agostinho Neto
“The Songs of the Woman of my Land”
by Oumar Farouk Sesay
“Raider of the Treasure Trove” by Lade
Wosomu
“A Government Driver On His
Retirement” by Onu Chibuike
Non-African Poetry
“The Good-Morrow” by John Donne
“Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou
“The Journey of the Magi” by T.S.
Eliot
“Do not Go Gentle into the Good Night”
by Dylan Thomas
“Binsey Poplars (felled 1879)” by
G.M. Hopkins
“Bat” by David H. Lawrence
African Prose
Second
Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
Unexpected
Joy at Dawn by Alex Agyei-Agyiri (2018 edition)
Non-African
Prose
Wuthering
Heights by Emily Bronte
Invisible
Man by Ralph Ellison
African Drama
Let
Me Die Alone by John K. Kargbo
The
Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
Non-African
Drama
Look
Back in Anger by John Osborne
Fences
by August Wilson
There you have it.
How to Excel
in Literature-in-English in WAEC/WASSCE
Now that you have the full list of recommended texts needed
for the 2021-2025 WAEC/WASSCE literature, you should start preparing. And one
of the best ways to prepare hard for literature examinations is to read the
texts. Yes, reading the given texts goes a long way in your understanding of
the books. Also, when you read the texts, you will be able to analyse it very
well. It is a deeper understanding of the texts that will bring about a
brilliant analysis. It is after this exercise that an extra material probably
online becomes useful.
In all, what is most important is not that you have
the list of the texts, what is most important is that you have begun to study
each of the given texts thoroughly ahead of your examinations. As you do this
and complement it with online materials, passing literature in flying colours
becomes achievable.
