JAMB Recommended Books for Literature in English
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Joint Admissions & Matriculation Board, JAMB recommended textbooks for Literature in English.
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JAMB Recommended Books for Literature in English
Drama:
- African:
- Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel
- Non-African:
- John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Prose:
- African:
- Alex Agyei-Agyir: Unexpected Joy at Dawn
- Buchi Emecheta: Second Class Citizen
- Non African:
- Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights.
Poetry:
- 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
- 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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Plz are these novels recommended for this year examination also?
please is this the only books recommended for jamb 2021
Are these the poems and books recommended for 2022 too?
Is it the recommended text for 2020 we are also going to use in this year’s utme(2021)?
Please what are the correct novel for Jamb 2021 literature in English
Sir, what are the precise jamb recommended texts in literature for this year(2021)
Please what are the literature recomended text for 2021 jamb? Is it the previously used one for 2020 or it has been changed?
Is it true that jamb is only OBJ
yes
Comment Text*please help me with jamb recommended poems for 2020
Comment Text*pls help me out with jamb books 4 litereture in english n english it self plsss
Comment Text*please help me with jamb recommended poems for 2020
In my school we treated book like invisible Man, midsummer night, wuthering heights etc so this book listed up wouldn’t be used in JAMB
Please what is jamb 2020 text for literature and english
pls i still dont get it
what are the recommended Novels for this years Jamb
i swear am confused
itis harvest of corruption and faceless
Hw do you know it’s harvest of corruption
That is also what we used
pls do not get confused o before you start running high blood pressure
I don’t understand the recommended text for literature still
Comment Text* what are the subjects required for phycologists
MAKE UNA HELP US PAST DIZ JAMB ABEG. AND WE WILL TRY OUR BEST
is sweet sixteen the recommended text on use of English
see me see jamb question o!
Comment Text*facelesr
what are the recommended novels for literature in english jamb 2018
why do you get confused over some certain things it is no other less than harvest of corruption and faceless i just saw it on the internet if you get what i mean tell me you understand.
this is for last year
is this for 2018/2019 jamb