WAEC SSCE
Literature In English Literature
Every novel and play on the syllabus, with a summary of each. Open one for the full study guide.
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. The play dramatises a contest between two suitors for the hand of Sidi, the village belle: Lakunle, a young, Western-educated schoolteacher who despises traditional customs, and...
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Second Class Citizen
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Second Class Citizen (1974) by Buchi Emecheta is a semi-autobiographical novel that follows Adah, a determined young Igbo woman, from her childhood in Lagos through her migration to 1960s London with her husband Francis. The novel chronicles Adah's struggle against the triple oppression of gender, race and class as she...
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Unexpected Joy at Dawn
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Unexpected Joy at Dawn (2003) by the Ghanaian writer Alex Agyei-Agyiri is a novel set against the backdrop of the mass expulsion of undocumented immigrants from Nigeria in 1983 (the 'Ghana Must Go' episode) and the reciprocal expulsion of Nigerians from Ghana. It tells the story of Nii Tackie, a Ghanaian living in...
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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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Invisible Man
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Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison is a landmark American novel about a young, unnamed Black man who discovers that he is 'invisible' to the society around him - not physically, but socially, because people refuse to see him as an individual, perceiving only his race. The novel traces his journey from the American...
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Let Me Die Alone
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Let Me Die Alone (2003) is a historical play by the Sierra Leonean dramatist John Kolosa Kargbo. It is based on the true story of Madam Yoko (c.1849-1906), a powerful female chief of the Kpa Mende people in what is now Sierra Leone. The play dramatises the political intrigues, betrayals and gender conflicts that...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (c.1595-96) is one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. Set partly in the court of Athens and partly in a magical forest nearby, the play weaves together four interlocking plots: the royal marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta; the tangled love affairs of four young Athenians (Hermia, Lysander,...
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Look Back in Anger
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Look Back in Anger (1956) by John Osborne is the play that launched the 'Angry Young Men' movement in British theatre. Set entirely in a cramped Midlands attic flat, it dramatises the explosive frustrations of Jimmy Porter, a university-educated young man from a working-class background who rages against the...
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Fences
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Fences (1985) is a play by the African-American dramatist August Wilson, the sixth in his ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle chronicling the Black American experience decade by decade across the twentieth century. Set in the 1950s in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it centres on Troy Maxson, a...
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WAEC Set Poems - African Poetry
WAEC SSCE Literature In English 2021-2025 - African poetry study and revision guide
This study guide covers the six African poems prescribed for the WAEC SSCE Literature In English examination (2021-2025 cycle). The poems span the Negritude movement, post-colonial resistance, and contemporary African voices, together offering a panoramic view of African literary expression from the mid-twentieth...
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WAEC Set Poems - Non-African Poetry
WAEC SSCE Literature In English 2021-2025 - Non-African poetry study and revision guide
This study guide covers the six Non-African poems prescribed for the WAEC SSCE Literature In English examination (2021-2025 cycle). The collection spans four centuries of English-language poetry, from John Donne's seventeenth-century Metaphysical wit through the Victorian sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the...
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