IndiaSphere

Your mobile phone beeps, you have received a text message.

It begins: “I swear, I will make sure I give you HIV...”

But it’s not an abusive threat, it’s a “romantic” text message
copied from a book on sale all over Nigeria that professes to
give young people the words they need to court the woman or man
of their dreams.

“H is for Happiness and joy forever with an I: Incomparable
love that will never V: Vanish until death do us part. I love
you,” the message concludes.