JAMB has changed 2022 UTME literature texts for language subjects ahead of the forthcoming 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Brand News Day Nigeria reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) made this disclosure that it has switched literature texts in four language subjects alongside Literature- in-English, ahead of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
This online news platform noted that JAMB made this announcement in its weekly bulletin issued on Monday that the four language subjects are Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and Arabic.
First off, the Literature-in-English texts for 2022 UTME are as follow:
Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka;
Look Back in Anger’ by John Osborne;
Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
Unexpected Joy at Dawn by Alex Agyei Agyiri.’
`Heights’ by Emile Bronte.
For the Arabic language, “The Nigerian Arabic Poems: a case study between the old and the new” by Abdulwahab Shith is one of the new texts.
Diwaanur Riyardh: A collection of Arabic Poems by Dr. Isah Abubakar is also one of the new texts.
Moving on, the examination body stated that for Hausa language, it has changed the literature novel to: “Prose (Zube) Turmin Danya, Poetry (Waka) Wakokin Hausa and Drama (Wasan kwaikwayo) Abin Da Kamar Wuya 3 as the new texts.
Correspondingly, the JAMB board also added that the new literature texts for Igbo will include “Prose (Iduuazi) Chinedu Ofomata (2009), Poetry (Abu) Nolue Emenanjo and Drama, (Ejije) Odunke Artists (1981).
Similarly, the new texts for the Yoruba Language have been listed as `Akojopo Alo Ijapa, Apa Kinni, by Adeboye Babalola;
`Awon Oriki Orile Metadinlogbon’ by Adeboye Babalola.
`Moremi Ajasoro’ by Debo Awe.
Meanwhile, all interested candidates can visit the JAMB’s website HERE.
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