Literature in English Past Questions

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is concerned with devastation because

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
''They too are the earth
Under snakeskin shoes and Mercedez tyres'.
Niyi Osundare uses the lines above to describe the

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Who are they that 'live that the earth may die'in Nyi Osundare's ''They Too Are The Earth''?

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In ''Hurrah For Thunder'', the poet uses the image of the jungle to comment on his country''s lack of

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
The epilogue of the play deals with the

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
The play is built on

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
Mrs. Hardcastle's complaint in the play that she misses 'a month's polishing' refers to her

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.
In the play, Soyinka's sympathies lie with the

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.
The play is

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.
Brother Jero displays an act of ingratitude to his master by

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.
Soyinka's depiction of Brother Jero in the play is

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.


In 'Hurrah for Thunder' , Christopher Okigbo recommends

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The Christs
are still in performing miracles
in the market places
heroding the masses with imperatives
feeding the hungry
with 21-gun salutes
for victories that are yet to be won.'
Odia Ofeimun, 'The Messiahs'
The attitude of the poet to his subject in the lines above is