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course outline

Shakespearean text
- Antony and Cleopatra
African prose
- Pede Hollist: So the Path Does not Die
- Elma Shaw: Redemption Road
Non-African prose
- Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Susanne Bellefeuille: Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured
African drama
- Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan: Once Upon an Elephant
- Efua Sutherland: The Marriage of Anansewa
Non-African drama
- J. D. Priestley: An Inspector Calls
- Robert Bolt: A Man for all Seasons
African poetry
- Gabriel Okara: Once Upon a Time
- Elizabeth L. A. Kamara: New Tongue
- Wole Soyinka: Night
- Niyi Osundare: Not my Business
- S.O.H. Afriyie-Vidza: Hearty Garlands
- Syl Cheney-Coker: The Breast of the Sea
Non-African poetry
- Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty
- Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- Seamus Heaney: Digging
- Maya Angelou: Still I Rise
- Fleur Adcock: The Telephone Call
- Wilfred Wilson Gibson: The Stone
Other Topics
- Introduction to drama definition characteristics forms comedy tragedy etc
- Elements of prose plot settings conflict character characterisation etc
- How to answer unseen prose
- Figures of speech
- General knowledge of literature
- Introduction to poetry definition characteristics elements
- Introduction to prose definition characteristics fiction vs non fiction
- Literary appreciation unseen literature
- Dramaturgy
- How to answer unseen poetry
- Literary devices
- Literary analysis

Literature