Tolani Salawu, no doubt, must have been driven by her experience as a relationship expert and marriage counselor to examine marital relationship from different perspectives in her book, Successful Marriage and the Commandments.
The book touches every aspect of marriage. The language is simple and fluid, thereby creating a bond between the author and the reader, especially with the constant input or entrenchment of spoken language. One will easily see himself or herself in the classroom reading a well-researched topic — from religious to moral, from ethics to customs, from orthodox to modern, from myths to realities — in aspects of marital affairs.
Tolani sheds light on the Christian and Islamic views of marriage and how adherents to these faiths choose their partners. She expounds that although the modes of worship are different, the freedom to select and the criteria of making that choice, based on character and spiritual uprightness, are the same. Read more