To Be Honest

A Podcast Special Series

Ideas Untrapped platforms and promotes ideas about how countries that are still stuck in poverty and underdevelopment can achieve prosperity. The podcast's audience is from all over the world, and I am incredibly grateful to all of you who listen and give us feedback. I usually frame a lot of the discussion through a Nigerian lens, and this is for two reasons. The first is that Nigeria's struggles with poverty traps and underdevelopment were the main reasons I became interested in development economics. Secondly, one of my goals for the podcast is to better inform and consequently empower Nigerians to interrogate and question political leaders about economic policy. Striking a balance of producing a podcast that can be engaging for a global development audience with a unique Nigerian voice is not simple, and I cannot claim to have cracked the code.

One of the things we are experimenting with is producing short podcast series focused on particular subjects or events. An example was Ballots and Beyond, which focused on the Nigerian election cycle in 2023 and will hopefully continue in future elections. Today, I am happy to announce another special podcast series called To Be Honest - frank dialogues about the future. Over a period of five months in 2024, I sat down with five brilliant people to talk about politics, economy, technology, and human capital in Nigeria. It is neither pride nor arrogance that speaks when I say that Nigeria must succeed for Africa to succeed. In about fifty years from now, the fate of 400 million people and everyone connected to them around the world will depend on it. You can watch and listen to the five-episode podcast series on YouTube through the link below.