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Literature PADI brings you a breakdown of the literature texts recommended by both WAEC and NECO for their prospective literature candidates from 2026 to 2030. Here is a breakdown of these texts into categories of African Prose, Non-African Prose, African Drama, Non-African Drama, African Poetry, Non-African Poetry, and Shakespearean Play, respectively.
SHAKESPEAREAN TEXT
- Antony and Cleopatra
AFRICAN PROSE
1. Pede Hollist: So the Path Does Not Die
2. Elma Shaw: Redemption Road
NON-AFRICAN PROSE
1. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Susanne Bellefeuille: Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured

AFRICAN DRAMA
1. Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan: Once Upon an Elephant
2. Efua Sutherland : The Marriage of Anansewa
NON-AFRICAN DRAMA
1. J. B. Priestley : An Inspector Calls
2. Robert Bolt: A Man for all Seasons
AFRICAN POETRY
1. Gabriel Okara: Once Upon a Time
2. Elizabeth L. A. Kamara : New Tongue
3. Wole Soyinka: Night
4. Niyi Osundare: Not My Business
5. S.O.H. Afriyie-Vidza: Hearty Garlands
6. Syl Cheney-Coker: The Breast of The Sea
NON-AFRICAN POETRY
1. Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty
2. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
3. Seamus Heaney : Digging
4. Maya Angelou : Still I Rise
5. Fleur Adcock : The Telephone Call
6. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson : The Stone
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Please where can I get analysis of Elma Shaw’s Redemption Road?
I am working on one.
Pls where can I get all the text for 2026-2030 both the prose and the plays
Thanks for all the efforts of bringing the new texts to readers
Good day. Please where and how can I get analysis of the 2026–2030 literature texted and poems.
They’re on the website.
Please does it affect those that are doing 2025 jamb, or 2026
It is only effective from 2026. The old syllabus is still in use till the end of this year (2025).
Hello. Thanks for the efforts of bringing the WASSCE 2026~2030 prescribed Literature text books. Please link us to where we would get them on line.