Authentic WAEC Syllabus for Literature-in-English1

Authentic WAEC Syllabus for Literature-in-English1

The WAEC Syllabus for Literature-in-English is a harmonized list of recommended texts for senior secondary school students and books ranging from drama, prose and poetry. Candidates are expected to have read these texts in Art class at different points in their three year senior secondary.

These books are divided into African prose, Non African prose, African and Non-African drama and Shakespearean texts. Below is a comprehensive list of texts for Literature-in-English as recommended by the Test Division of the West African Examination Council. It is important to note that this list was drafted in 2021 and has been in use since then.

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 Bronte

Shakespearean Text

1. A Midsummer NIght’s Dream

African Drama

1. Let me Die Alone by John K. Kargbo
2. The lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka

Non-African Drama

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

African Poetry

1. Black Woman by by Leopold Sedar Senghor
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 Onuh Chibuike
7. the good morrow by John Donne
8. Cage bird by Maya Angelou
9. The journey of the Magi by T.S Elliot

Non-African Poetry

1. Do not go Gentle into the Good Night by by Dylan Thomas
2. Binsey Poplars (Felled 1879) by G.M Hopkins
3. Bat by David H. Lawrence