OUT WITH A BANG!

 

Announcing: Comprehensive Revision Notes on Literature-in-English for WAEC and NECO Examinations 2026 to 2030!

Comprehensive Revision Notes on Literature-in-English for WAEC and NECO Examinations 2026-2030 is an Ebook written specifically for students preparing for their WAEC and NECO Examinations. This ebook was written for one purpose: to help you succeed.

Perhaps you are sitting your WASSCE or NECO Literature in English examination for the first time. Perhaps you are a returning candidate determined to improve on a previous result. Perhaps you are a student who loves literature and simply wants to understand these texts more deeply before you walk into the examination hall. Whatever your situation, this book was written with you in mind — your pressures, your schedule, your need for clear, reliable, and exam-focused guidance.

Literature teachers will also find this ebook invaluable as it simplifies and lightens the burden of revising literature lessons with their students.   

This revision ebook covers all the texts in the harmonized WAEC and NECO syllabus for 2026 – 2030. Also, the poetry section of this ebook contains all the 12 poems students will study for their WAEC and NECO Examinations - 2026 – 2030. You don’t need to run around looking for a collection of the 12 poems. They are already contained therein, thoroughly analysed and simplified. The following are the texts students are required to study for their WAEC and NECO Examinations - 2026 – 2030:

 

SHAKESPEAREAN TEXT

William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra

 

AFRICAN DRAMA

1. Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan: Once Upon an Elephant

2. Efua Sutherland: The Marriage of Anansewa

 

NON-AFRICAN DRAMA

1. J. D. Priestley: An Inspector Calls

2. Robert Bolt: A Man for all Seasons

 

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 Mocking Bird

2. Susanne Bellefeuille : Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured

 

AFRICAN POETRY

1.      Once Upon a Time by Gabriel Okara

2.     New Tongue by Elizabeth L.A. Kamara

3.     Night by Wole Soyinka

4.     Not My Business by Niyi Osundare

5.     Hearty Garlands by S.O.H. Afriye-Vidza

6.     The Breast of the Sea by Syi Cheney-Coker

                           NON-AFRICAN POETRY

1.      She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

2.     The Nun’s Priest’s Tale by Geofrey Saucer

3.     Digging by Seamus Heaney

4.     Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

5.     The Telephone Call by Fleur Adcook

6.     The Stone by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

 

What This Book Covers for Every Text

 

EVERY CHAPTER DELIVERS

 

✔  Literary Terms and Devices — a comprehensive, standalone section building the critical vocabulary for all three genres

✔  Background and context — author, publication, historical setting, cultural tradition, and examination significance

✔  Full plot summary and act-by-act or chapter-by-chapter analysis

✔  Themes — discussed in depth with textual evidence from each text

✔  Language, style, symbolism, and imagery

✔  Major and minor character analysis — roles, traits, and significance

✔  Revision questions at three levels: short answer, essay, and WASSCE/NECO exam-style 25-mark questions

✔  Quick Revision Summary at the end of each chapter for last-minute review

 

THE AUTHOR’S ASSURANCE TO EVERY STUDENT

If you read the recommended texts, study this revision textbook carefully, master the literary terms and devices in the opening section, and practise the revision questions with honesty and discipline — you will be equipped, you will be confident, and you will excel.

This is not a promise made lightly. It is a promise grounded in years of classroom experience, a deep familiarity with what WASSCE and NECO examiners look for, and an unshakeable belief that every student who prepares properly is capable of earning the grade they deserve.

Read. Revise. Excel.

 

Dear reader, if you are preparing to sit your WAEC and NECO examinations, either this year, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 or 2030, then grab a copy of this ebook right away. For a promotional offer of three thousand naira (N3,000.00k) only, you can have what it takes to fully prepare and walk confidently into the examination with full assurance that will excel, come what may. DO NO GO INTO THE EXAMINATION HALL WITHOUT FIRST READING THIS EBOOK.

How to Order

To order a copy of this eBook, pay the sum of three thousand naira (N3,000.00k) only into the following account:

Bank Name: UBA

Account Name: Adaji Sunday

Account No.: 2015569824

After paying into the above bank account, text, WhatsApp or email the following details: your name/amount paid/payment receipt/date/email address. On confirmation of your payment, the e-book will be sent to your email box for you to download or print out and read.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Sunday Adaji

Writer • Legal Practitioner • Literature-in-English Educator

 

Sunday Adaji is a writer, author, and legal practitioner of many years’ standing. He hails from Ofugo in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria, and holds a law degree from the University of Ibadan — one of West Africa’s foremost centres of academic excellence — where he is also a distinguished alumnus.

 

It was during his undergraduate years at the University of Ibadan that Sunday Adaji first discovered the particular gift that would shape a parallel career alongside his legal practice: the ability to make literature come alive for students. From those early days on campus, he began teaching English Language and Literature-in-English at coaching centres in Ibadan, and has continued to do so across decades of professional life, extending his teaching to coaching centres and secondary schools in Abuja. Across both cities, across many years, and across thousands of students, he has developed a rare and practical mastery of what the subject demands — and of what students most need to succeed in it.

 

It is that mastery — the confluence of a rigorous legal mind, a genuine love of literature, and a teacher’s hard-won understanding of how and why students struggle — that gave birth to this textbook. Sunday Adaji has seen, again and again in classrooms and coaching centres, that the majority of students who underperform in WASSCE and NECO Literature in English do not lack intelligence or effort. They lack structured, exam-focused guidance: a clear, reliable, and comprehensive resource that explains not just what the texts contain, but how to analyse them, how to write about them, and how to perform with confidence and precision in the examination hall. This book is his answer to that need.

 

Sunday Adaji is currently engaged in full-time legal practice. This textbook represents his commitment to giving back — to the subject that has engaged him since his student days, to the teachers who inspired him, and above all to the next generation of Literature students preparing to sit some of the most important examinations of their academic lives.

 

The Author’s Personal Assurance “My assurance to every Literature student who reads this book is this: if you engage with its content honestly and thoroughly, you will walk into your WASSCE or NECO examination hall equipped with the knowledge, the analytical tools, and the confidence to write well and to excel. That assurance is not made lightly. It is grounded in my years of experience as a Literature-in-English teacher, my understanding of how WASSCE and NECO examiners think, and my conviction that every well-prepared student is capable of achieving the grade they deserve.” — Sunday Adaji

 

 

 

Twnty-one texts. Four novels. Five plays. Twelve poems. One examination. One textbook.

Everything you need to read, revise, and excel.

 

Read. Revise. Excel.