The West
African Examinations Council (WAEC) has published the list of Literature texts
for 2021 – 2025 academic sessions on its website. Literature teachers are, therefore, advised to teach their SSS 1, SSS 2 and SSS 3 students with
the literary texts listed below.
5. "Raider of the Treasure Trove" by Lade Wosomu
Literature Texts for 2021 – 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE)
African Prose
1. Second Class
Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
2. Unexpected Joy
at Dawn by Alex Agyei-Agyiri (2018 Edition)
Non African Prose
1. Wuthering
Heights by Emily Bronté
2. Invisible Man by
Ralph Ellison
African Drama
1. Let me Die
Alone by John K. Kargbo
2. The Lion and
the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
Non African Drama
1. Look Back in
Anger by John Osborne
2. Fences by
August Wilson
African Poetry
1. "Black
Woman" by Leopard Sedar Senghor
2. "The Leader and
the Led" by Niyi Osundare
3. "The Grieved
Lands" by Agostinho Neto
4. "The Song of the
Woman of my Land" by Oumar Farouk Sesay
5. "Raider of the Treasure Trove" by Lade Wosomu
6. "A Government
Driver on his Retirement" by Onu Chibuike
Non African Poetry
1. "The
Good-Morrow" by John Donne
2. "Caged Bird"
by Maya Angelou
3. "The Journey of
the Magi" by T.S Eliot
4. "Do not Go Gentle
into the Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
5. "Binsey Poplars
(Felled 1879)" by G.M. Hopkins
6. "Bat" by
David H. Lawrence
Drama Text for
Objective/Contextual Questions
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William
Shakespeare