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Marriage and Procreation: Continuities and Transformations in the Ankara Novellas A Tailor-Made Romance and Love Me Unconditionally Against the Backdrop of Flora Nwapa’s Efuru

This article acknowledges that romantic love is slowly getting more recognition than before in the study of African literature and culture.The Nigerian publisher, Cassava Republic, has been part of this recognition.Their popular romance imprint, the Ankara romance series, presents stylish, sophisticated, urban heroines who negotiate complex social issues through their relationships with romance heroes.Although the Ankara novellas acknowledge and are inspired by the western romance tradition, they also consider questions which are specific to contemporary African cultures.One of the concerns wh…

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