WAEC Literature-in-English Syllabus 2025/2026

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This syllabus will provide you with a list of topics and reading texts, such as drama, prose, and poetry, from which you will receive exam questions.

The primary goal of the exam is to improve your critical thinking skills and your ability to interpret what you have read and learned from the suggested novels and poems.

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WAEC Literature-in-English Syllabus 2025/2026

		LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WAEC SYLLABUS
SN	TOPICS	OBJECTIVES
1	African Prose	(1) Amma Darko – Faceless (2) Bayo Adebowale – Lonely Days
2	Non-African Prose	(1) Richard Wright – Native Son (2) Patience Swift – The Last Goodman
		William Shakespeare : OTHELLO
3	Non-African Drama	(1) Oliver GoldSmith – She Stoops to conquer (2) Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun
4	African Drama	(1)Frank Ogodo Ogbeche – Harvest of Corruption (2) Dele Charley – The Blood of a Stranger
5	African Poetry	(1) Birago Drop – Vanity (2) Gbemisola Adeoti – Ambush (3) Gabriel Okara – Piano and Drums (4) Gbanabam Hallowell – The Dinning Table (5) Lenrie Peter – The Panic of Growing Older (6) Kofi Awoonor – The Anvil and the Hammer
6	Non-African Poetry	(1) Alfred Tennyson – Crossing the Bar (2) George Herbert – The pulley (3) William Blake – The School Boy (4) William Morris – The Proud King (5) Robert Frost Birches – Birches (6) William Shakespeare – Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day?    LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WAEC SYLLABUS SN TOPICS OBJECTIVES 1 African Prose (1) Amma Darko – Faceless (2) Bayo Adebowale – Lonely Days 2 Non-African Prose (1) Richard Wright – Native Son (2) Patience Swift – The Last Goodman     William Shakespeare : OTHELLO 3 Non-African Drama (1) Oliver GoldSmith – She Stoops to conquer (2) Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun 4 African Drama (1)Frank Ogodo Ogbeche – Harvest of Corruption (2) Dele Charley – The Blood of a Stranger 5 African Poetry (1) Birago Drop – Vanity (2) Gbemisola Adeoti – Ambush (3) Gabriel Okara – Piano and Drums (4) Gbanabam Hallowell – The Dinning Table (5) Lenrie Peter – The Panic of Growing Older (6) Kofi Awoonor – The Anvil and the Hammer 6 Non-African Poetry (1) Alfred Tennyson – Crossing the Bar (2) George Herbert – The pulley (3) William Blake – The School Boy (4) William Morris – The Proud King (5) Robert Frost Birches – Birches (6) William Shakespeare – Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day?

WAEC Textbooks Recommended for Literature (2020-2025)

A LIST OF SELECTED AFRICAN AND NON-AFRICAN PLAYS, NOVELS, AND POEMS

Drama:

African:

1. Wole Soyinka: Lion and the Jewel
2. Let me die alone by John Kargbo

Non-African:

1. John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
2. Fences by Austin Wilson

Prose:

African:

1. Buchi Emecheta: Second Class Citizen
2. Alex Agyei Agyiri: Unexpected Joy at Dawn

Non-African:

1. Emile Bronte: Wuthering Heights
2. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison

Poetry:

African:

1. Leopold Sedar Senghor: Black Woman
2. Niyi Osundare: The Leader and the Led
3. Agostinho Neto: The Grieved Lands
4. Oumar Farouk Sesay: The Song of the Women of the lands
5. Lade Wosornu: Raider of the Treasure Trove
6. Onu Chibuike: A Government Driver on his Retirement

Non-African:

1. John Donne: The Good Morrow
2. Maya Angelou: Caged Birds
3. T. S. Elliot: The Journey of the Magi
4. D. H. Lawrence:  Bats
5. Dyian Thomas: Do not go gentle into the Good night
6. G M Hopkins: Binsey Poplar (Felled 1879)

Recommended WAEC Textbooks for Literature (2026-2030)

TYPE OF TEXT: SHAKESPEAREAN TEXT
SELECTED TEXT: Antony and Cleopatra

AFRICAN PROSE

• Pede Hollist : So the Path Does Not Die
• Elma Shaw : Redemption Road

NON-AFRICAN PROSE

• Harper Lee : To Kill a Mockingbird
• Susanne Bellefeuille : Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured

AFRICAN DRAMA

• Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan : Once Upon an Elephant
• Efua Sutherland : The Marriage of Anansewa

NON-AFRICAN DRAMA

• J.D. Priestley : An Inspector Calls
• Robert Bolt : A Man for All Seasons

AFRICAN POETRY

• Gabriel Okara : Once Upon a Time
• Elizabeth L.A. Kamara : The Fence
• Wole Soyinka : Night
• Niyi Osundare : Not My Business
• S.O.H. Afriyie-Vidza : Hearty Garlands
• Syl Cheney-Coker : The Breast of the Sea

AFRICAN PROSE

• Pede Hollist : So the Path Does Not Die
• Elma Shaw : Redemption Road

NON-AFRICAN PROSE

• Harper Lee : To Kill a Mockingbird
• Susanne Bellefeuille : Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured

AFRICAN DRAMA

• Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan : Once Upon an Elephant
• Efua Sutherland : The Marriage of Anansewa

NON-AFRICAN DRAMA

• J.D. Priestley : An Inspector Calls
• Robert Bolt : A Man for All Seasons

AFRICAN POETRY

• Gabriel Okara : Once Upon a Time
• Elizabeth L.A. Kamara : The Fence
• Wole Soyinka : Night
• Niyi Osundare : Not My Business
• S.O.H. Afriyie-Vidza : Hearty Garlands
• Syl Cheney-Coker : The Breast of the Sea

NON-AFRICAN POETRY

• Lord Byron : She Walks in Beauty
• Geoffrey Chaucer : The Nun’s Priest’s Tale (shortened)
• Seamus Heaney : Digging
• Maya Angelou : Still I Rise
• Fleur Adcock : The Telephone Call
• Wilfred Wilson Gibson : The Stone

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