When I have actually recommended, in Nigeria, as across Africa, proof shows that individuals are increasingly very likely to pick wedding partners based, at the least to some extent, on if they are “in love” (Obiechina 1973, Okonjo 1992, Smith 2001).

However the emergence of intimate love being a criterion in mate selection together with increasing significance of a couple’s individual and psychological relationship in wedding really should not be interpreted to signify romantic love it self has just recently emerged in Nigeria. Read more