love/romance/eros are european concepts that come from a philosophical/political/artistic movement that stressed hightened excessive an unrealistic human emotions as a way to forward mankind socially spiritually an politically.

i have always wanted to research what traditional africans theorised 'love' as? how did they conceive emotions in general? what was some african philosophy on love? is there even a lingua franca for how we use the word love in the west to describe emotions in interpersonal relationships?

i know this post is slap dash an ting i jus wanna open some discourse.