Oral Literature: Agụmagụ Ọnụ/

Contents & notes: what this topic covers

Under Oral Literature: Agụmagụ Ọnụ/, the JAMB Igbo syllabus expects you to study:

• 2. Oral Literature: Agụmagụ Ọnụ/ Agụmagụ Ọdịnala: Folktales (ifo), myths (nkọmịrịkọ), legends (nkọkịrịkọ), poems (abụ), songs (uri), chants (mbem), riddles (agwụgwa), oral drama (ejije ọnụ), tongue-twister (okwuntụhị) dgz.

Study notes & guidance

Study Oral Literature: Agụmagụ Ọnụ/ using a recommended Igbo textbook that follows the JAMB syllabus. Work through the contents listed above one by one, make brief notes in your own words, and then practise as many questions on this topic as you can — in Igbo, understanding and steady practice matter far more than memorising. Use the objectives below as a checklist: if you can do each one confidently, you have mastered this topic.

Objectives — candidates should be able to

After studying Oral Literature: Agụmagụ Ọnụ/, you should be able to:

1. (i) create folk stories, chants, riddles, oral drama etc. (ii) analyse various genres of oral literature; (iii) present ideas/formulae in accordance with underlying principles; (iv) apply the lessons of oral literature to their everyday life.

These objectives are from the official JAMB syllabus. Use them as a checklist — if you can do each one confidently, you have mastered this topic.

Source: official JAMB UTME Igbo syllabus (IBASS, jamb.gov.ng). Reproduced for study use. Last checked: 17 Sept 2026. Always confirm the current syllabus on the official portal.