JAMB Recommended Textbook For Literature in English 2024/2025

March 17, 2024 Teezab
JAMB Recommended Textbook For Literature in English 2024/2025

Hello Friends! Do you know JAMB has a Recommended Textbook for Literature in English?

I will advise you to read this post very carefully and avoid skipping any part of it! Remember, No information is wasteful!

Are you among those that are going to write Literature in English in the 2024 UTME and you are now looking for the JAMB recommended Textbook for Literature in English? Well, allow me to tell you that you have found the right page! Teezab.com.ng will give you everything you need to know about the JAMB recommended Textbook for Literature in English! 

See, let me tell you something. If you are willing to score high in JAMB, then you must know the recommended Textbook for all the four Subjects you are going to write in the UTME! WHY? Because, knowing the recommended Textbook will allow you to cover the necessary place JAMB is going to bring questions out and avoid reading past the JAMB Syllabus! This is like an expo! 

Once you read the JAMB recommended Textbook very well and you understand at least 80% of what the textbook covers, then you are sure to score a very high score which will give you a very high chance of gaining Admission into your chosen Institution!

JAMB Recommended Textbook For Literature in English 2024/2025

This is to inform the general public most especially JAMB Candidates that the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board JAMB has released the recommended Textbook for Literature in English for the 2024/2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME.

Candidates are advised to go through the JAMB recommended Textbook for Literature in English for the 2024/2025 Academic Session and choose the one they like and read them cover to cover!

You should understand that there are pieces of information candidates must not take with levity hands if they are willing to have a very high score in JAMB! Information like Recommended Textbooks and syllabus, Subject Combination, Admission requirements and others. 

So, below are the JAMB recommended Textbook for Literature in English. Note that Use of English is a must for all Candidates! All Candidates are going to write Use of English in the UTME!

JAMB Recommended Textbook For Literature in English 2024/2025

Drama:

  1. African
  • Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel
  1. Non-African:
  • John Osborne: Look Back in Anger

Prose:

  1. African:
  • Alex Agyei-Agyir: Unexpected Joy at Dawn
  • Buchi Emecheta: Second Class Citizen
  1. Non African:
  • Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights.

Poetry:

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

ANTHOLOGIES

  • Obafemi, O. and Agoi (eds) Of shadows and Rainbows –Musings in Times of Covid (An Anthology of poems, plays and short stories) PEN Nigeria, Online
  • Hayward, J. (ed.) (1968) The Penguin Book of English Verse, London Penguin
  • Johnson, R.,Ker, D, Maduka,C. Obafemi,O (eds.) (1996) New Poetry from Africa, Ibadan: UP Plc
  • Kermode, F. (1964) Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II, London: OUP
  • Nduke Ofiono and Odoh Diego Okenyodo (eds) Camouflage; Best of contemporary writing from Nigeria, an anthology of new Nigerian writers, mace books association, 2021, New
  • Parker, E.W. (ed.) (1980) A Peagent of Longer Poems London: Longman
  • Senanu, K. E. and Vincent, T. (eds.) (1993) A Selection of African Poetry, Lagos: Longman
  • Soyinka, W. (ed.) (1987) Poems of Black Africa, Ibadan: Heinemann

CRITICAL TEXTS

  • Abrams, M. H. (1981) A Glossary of Literary Terms, (4th Edition) New York, Holt Rinehalt and Winston
  • Emeaba, O. E. (1982) A Dictionary of Literature, Aba:  Inteks Press
  • Murphy, M. J. (1972) Understanding Unseen, An Introduction to English Poetry and English Novel for Overseas Students, George Allen and Unwin Ltd.

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