Love in Africa

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction:

Thinking through Love in Africa

            Lynn M. Thomas and Jennifer Cole

Chapter 1:

Love, Sex, and the Modern Girl in 1930s Southern Africa

            Lynn M. Thomas

Chapter 2:

 Making Love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi Films, Zanzibari Audiences, and the

Construction of Romance in the 1950s and 1960s

      Laura Fair

Chapter 3:

 “Dear Dolly’s” Advice: Representations of Youth, Courtship, and Sexualities in Africa, 1960–1980

            Kenda Mutongi

Chapter 4:

 Love, Money, and Economies of Intimacy in Tamatave, Madagascar

            Jennifer Cole

Chapter 5:

 Providing Love: Sex and Exchange in Twentieth-Century South Africa

            Mark Hunter

Chapter 6:

 Managing Men, Marriage, and Modern Love: Women’s Perspectives on Intimacy and Male Infidelity in Southeastern Nigeria

            Daniel Jordan Smith

Chapter 7:

 Media and the Therapeutic Ethos of Romantic Love in Middle-Class Nairobi

            Rachel Spronk

Chapter 8:

 Lessons from Rubí: Love, Poverty, and the Educational Value of Televised Dramas in Niger

            Adeline Masquelier

References

List of Contributors