Literature in English JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The persona in the poem ‘To the Soldier Hero’ by Mazisi Kunene is portrayed as being

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In his reaction to his friend’s death, the mood of the poet, in ‘For CHristopher Okigbo’ is that of

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah’s ‘The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born’.
The use of the word ‘salt’ in the novel is suggestive of

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah’s ‘The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born’.
‘Ah, you know, the chichidodo is a bird
The chichidodo hates excrement with all its soul.
But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory. This is the chichidodo’.
Which character in the novel is likened to his bird?

This question i based on William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
‘… I think our country skins beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.’
Who made the above statement and to whom?

This question i based on William Shakespeare”s Macbeth.

”This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,

Why hath it given me earnest of success,…

What does the phrase ”earnest of success” refer to?