What Advice Would You Give Nigerians Seeking Love Advice From the 1960s to the ’90s?
Before social media, Nigerians wrote to newspapers and magazines with their most complicated relationship problems. These archived letters reveal concerns that ranged from forced early marriages and family pressure to jealousy, infidelity, bride price and disagreements over sex. Some writers were torn between multiple partners or difficult family expectations. Others worried about pregnancy, fertility, contraception, education and whether their relationships could survive distance, poverty or parental disapproval. The letters are sometimes funny, troubling and deeply revealing of the social attitudes of their time. If these writers asked for your advice today, what would you tell them?
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