Part 3 – Quarantine and Chill with Samuel Wakdok from Nigeria

Heading over to the home of Afrobeats we catch up with economist, Samuel Wakdok based at the University College London. He brings 15 years’ experience in Banking and Public service along with his current programme experience in Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policy and Transitions in critically dissecting the situation in his home country Nigeria. In this interview the expectations vs reality of the bustling African nation is consciously weighed considering the strains on health systems in developed countries and what this means for countries like Nigeria with less capacity. We touch on the cultural misperceptions of contracting coronavirus and faulty comparisons of previous pandemics which dangerously diminish the severity of the current global emergency. As with all of the interviews we check in with families, so we find out how the doting husband and father of three is managing despite physical separation especially at this time.

The figures and scenarios reported within the episodes were based on time of recording as at March 22-23, 2020*