<div> <p>In this episode, Awa is in conversation with Fuad Busoir about love – what it means, how it is recognised, and whether it’s something felt or practised. Moving between romantic relationships, friendship and family, they reflect on the ways love shapes how people relate to one another, to space, and to themselves. Along the way, they sit with questions of accountability, intention, and whether love can ever be separate from politics – or if it is always quietly structuring the worlds being built.</p><p><strong>REFERENCES</strong></p><p>Davies Jr., Akinola, dir. <em>My Father’s Shadow</em>. 2025. Drama film.</p><p>Hooks, Bell. <em>All About Love: new visions: Bell Hooks</em>. William Morrow, 2000.</p><p>Jenkins, Barry, dir. <em>If Beale Street Could Talk</em>. 2018. Film.</p><p>Nash, Jennifer C. "Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality."<em>Meridians</em> 19, no. S1 (2020): 439-462.</p><p>Prince-Bythewood, Gina, dir. <em>Love &amp; Basketball</em>. 2000. Film.</p><p><strong>JINGLE</strong><br>“Niamey Nights”, Bamako Bae, Shutterstock, <a href="https://www.shutterstock.com/music/track-1221135-niamey-nights">⁠⁠https://www.shutterstock.com/music/track-1221135-niamey-nights⁠</a></p><p><strong>CONTRIBUTORS</strong><br><strong>Host</strong>: Awa Sow<br><strong>Guest</strong>: Fuad Busoir<br><strong>Edited by</strong>: Awa Sow</p></div>