JAMB updates literature syllabus with new texts [see full list]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has recently updated its syllabus, especially for candidates offering literature in English, AF24news research has found.

The new syllabus update is for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination of the 2022.

Last year, there was a wide confusion among students and teachers of literature after the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO), changed their syllabuses the recent harmonised syllabus which contains Professor Wole Soyinka’s comedy of manners, “The Lion and the Jewel” and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights”.

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@BabajideOtitoju Jamb Examination and contrary to the usual jamb practice, the new harmonised Literature syllabus for Jamb/WAEC and NECO was jettisoned for the old outdated one which candidates sat for. Prior to the exam observations were made concerning the

— Shadey (@Shadefashakin) June 4, 2021

In the year 2021 JAMB stuck to the old recommended texts both in the exams and on their website. The implication being that students who sat for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, (WASSCE) and UTME had to study two different collections, resulting to about 10 books and 24 poems.

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However, this year, JAMB has eventually harmonised the syllabus, according to our checks.

The syllabus is presented below.

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

Drama

African:

Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel

Non-African:

John Osborne: Look Back in Anger

Prose

African:

i.Alex Agyei-Agyir:
Unexpected Joy at Dawn

ii. Buchi Emecheta:
Second Class Citizen

Non African:
i. Emily Bronte:
Wuthering Heights.

Poetry
African:
Black Woman
Leopold Sedar Senghor:
i.
Niyi Osundare:
ii.
The Leader and the Led
ii.
Agostinho Neto:
The Grieved Lands.
Oumar Farouk Sesay:
The Song of the Women of my Land
iv.
Lade Wosornu:
Raider of the Treasure Trove
V.
vi.
Onu Chibuike:
A Government Driver on his Retirement
Non-African:
The Good Morrow
John Donne:
Caged Bird
ii.
Maya Angelou:
T.S. Elliot:
ii.
The Journey of the Magi
D.H Lawrence:
Bats
V.