JAMB SSCE
Literature In English Literature
Every novel and play on the syllabus, with a summary of each. Open one for the full study guide.
Antony and Cleopatra
JAMB UTME Literature In English set text - complete study and revision guide
Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606-07) is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies. It dramatises the passionate love between the Roman triumvir Mark Antony and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, set against the struggle for control of the Roman Empire. Antony, one of the three rulers of Rome, is caught between political duty and...
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JAMB Set Poems - African Poetry
JAMB UTME Literature In English 2025 - African poetry study and revision guide
This collection brings together twelve African poems prescribed by JAMB for the Literature In English examination (2022-2026 syllabus cycle). The poets span generations and geographies: from the Senegalese Negritude pioneer Leopold Sedar Senghor and Angolan liberation poet Agostinho Neto to contemporary West African...
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JAMB Set Poems - Non-African Poetry
JAMB UTME Literature In English 2025 - Non-African poetry study and revision guide
This study guide covers the eight Non-African poems prescribed for the JAMB UTME Literature In English examination (2022-2026 cycle). The collection spans five centuries of English-language poetry, from the early seventeenth-century Metaphysical tradition of John Donne through the Romantic lyricism of Lord Byron, the...
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The Lion and the Jewel
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The Lion and the Jewel (1963) is a comic play by the Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, set in the small Yoruba village of Ilujinle. It dramatises the rivalry between Baroka, the ageing but cunning Bale (village chief), and Lakunle, a young, Western-educated schoolteacher, for the hand of Sidi, the village belle...
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Look Back in Anger
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Look Back in Anger (1956) by John Osborne is a landmark play in British drama, widely credited with launching the 'Angry Young Men' movement and the Kitchen Sink school of realism. Set entirely in the cramped attic flat of Jimmy Porter and his wife Alison in a Midlands town, it dramatises Jimmy's furious, articulate...
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The Marriage of Anansewa
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The Marriage of Anansewa (1975) is a comic play by the Ghanaian dramatist Efua Sutherland, rooted in the West African oral storytelling tradition of Anansesem (spider tales). It tells the story of Ananse, the trickster father, who schemes to marry off his daughter Anansewa to the wealthiest of four competing chiefs in...
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The Nun's Priest's Tale
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The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of the best-loved stories in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (c.1390). It is a mock-heroic beast fable in which the rooster Chanticleer, living in the yard of a poor widow, has a terrifying dream of a fox-like beast. His favourite hen, Pertelote, dismisses the dream as caused by...
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Path of Lucas
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Path of Lucas (2015) by Susanne Bellefeuille is an emotionally charged novel that chronicles the life of Lucas Clarkson, a Canadian farmer's son whose journey from a rural Ontario upbringing through love, sacrifice, loss and resilience forms the heart of the narrative. The story is framed by a present-day crisis:...
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Redemption Road
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Redemption Road (2008) by Liberian writer Elma Shaw is a powerful novel set in the aftermath of Liberia's devastating civil wars (1989-2003). It follows Bendu Lewis, a young Americo-Liberian woman who survived a year of captivity under rebel fighters, as she attempts to rebuild her life in post-war Monrovia. Working as...
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Second Class Citizen
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Second Class Citizen (1974) by Nigerian-born writer Buchi Emecheta is a semi-autobiographical novel tracing the journey of Adah Ofili from childhood in Lagos to her difficult life as an immigrant wife in 1960s London. Driven from early childhood by a fierce dream of education and eventual migration to the United...
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So the Path Does Not Die
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So the Path Does Not Die (2012) by Sierra Leonean author Pede Hollist is a sweeping postcolonial novel that traces the life of Finaba Marah (Fina), a young woman from the rural village of Talaba in Sierra Leone, through displacement, trauma and resilience to her eventual life in America and her return to her roots. The...
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Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Bronte is a passionate, violent and structurally innovative novel set on the Yorkshire moors of northern England. It tells the story of the intense, destructive love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, an orphan brought into the Earnshaw household as a child. Their bond...
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