Bola Mosuro Presenter of Network Africa at the Weekend

	Lady of love letters

I'd get to school where I'd then exchange the quickly digested novel with friends who also wanted to get their hands on the slushy stories. We couldn't get enough of them!

But when I think of that trashy literature which we loved so much then, I wonder how women of my generation didn't end up with a warped sense of what love is all about.

Anyone who's read a Mills and Boon will know what I'm talking about.

There's usually a tall, dark and handsome man - always white - who sweeps a young woman off her feet and, after mandatory misunderstandings and tensions, the pair fall madly in love and live happily ever after.

African love anthology

Thankfully my reading material has changed and I was thrilled to receive a copy of the newly published African Love Stories - an anthology, edited by Ama Ata Aidoo.

This collection of short stories presents African women and their relationships in a fresh light, not as the impoverished and helpless victim at the whim of a dominant man.

The book has just been published here in Britain by Ayebia which is run by Ghanaian Becky Clarke. I asked her why publish this anthology?

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I wonder if there really such a thing as 'African love'?

Wangui Wa Goro of Kenya and Yaba Badoe of Ghana are two of the anthologies' contributing writers and we invited them to Network Africa to talk about love!

I started by asking Yaba Badoe what aspect of love she decided to write about?

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