Shahla Zeynalova, Azerbaijani, and Hamid Ajibola, Nigerian, married in 2010. They have two children and live in Baku where Hamid arrived in 2004 to teach English.

“Hamid was my teacher. I discovered he had fallen in love with me only a few years later though. Since I had to drop out of the course, I lost contact with him. Then a couple of years later I randomly met him in the street and he told me he loved me.”

Although their marriage is officially registered in Azerbaijan, 28-year old Shahla and Hamid, 34, held a wedding reception only in Lagos, the Nigerian capital he hails from.