Fish sperm potions and camel's milk concoctions keep love alive in Nigeria

Business booms for sellers of traditional aphrodisiacs meant to ensure marital stability in conservative country

Has your love life lost its spark? Too tired after long days at work? Or maybe you suspect your partner's eye has been wandering?

Zainab Usman, a Muslim from northern Nigeria, says she has the solution for all these problems. Walking through a room lined with jars, bottles and gourds, perfumed air trailing in her wake, she ticks off each remedy on delicately manicured fingers. Out come a stream of names that sound like a cross between children's sweets and street slang for class A drugs.

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