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This paper argues that discourses of love in Ghanaian market literature for youth offer a view into complex negotiations of agency and empowerment. Drawing on Deborah Durham's notion of youth as "social `shifters'" and Francis Nyamnjoh's conception of the "interconnectedness" of agency, I take Ghanaian market literature as one specific case of how African literature for youth foregrounds questions of continuity and change as African societies enter into increasingly complex global relations. In this literature for youth, received notions of love, often constructed out of impressions from American pop and hip hop music, carry new notions of agency that compete with existing "domesticated" forms. Authors like Ike Tandoh and Evelyn Tay employ discourses of love to offer youth alternative avenues for empowerment in a context of socio-economic disenfranchizement. In a creative process of "straddling", this writing both reveals and reproduces the contradictions that obtain in youth configurations of agency.

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: I know not the author of this beautiful hymn. It will be
found in a collection of great merit, called "Songs of the Night."]

[Footnote 2: For this sketch, which for beauty of description, and wild,
thrilling interest, will compare favorably with any known to me, I am
indebted to my friend, Mr. C. Whitehead. M. J. Mc.]

[Footnote 3: Plato calls Truth the body of God, and Light His shadow.]

[Footnote 4: These lines were extracted from a satirical poem published
many years since, under the title of "The Devil's Progress."]

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