Lonely in Lagos
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Poet and journalist Wana Udobang travels round her home city, Lagos, speaking to people who are lonely and isolated in Africa's most populous city. She meets a young gay man who opens up about his feelings of isolation in the light of strict laws on homosexuality, meets a group of displaced women who are coming together to combat loneliness in poverty, and visits a cycling club and an elderly community centre.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the BBC World Service and welcome to the latest edition of the |
| 0:05.2 | documentary podcast. Every week we bring you a range of stories from our |
| 0:10.1 | presenters and reporters across the world. If you have the time please rate |
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| 0:20.8 | Hi I'm Juan At Udubanga and you're listening to the BBC World Service. |
| 0:27.0 | Lagos is Africa's most popular city, with over 20 million people living here. We're crowded together, pushing at each other side to side, |
| 0:37.0 | front to back in this teeming metropolis. |
| 0:42.0 | This city is noisy, full of energy, full of color and life. |
| 0:46.0 | But even while you're right in the middle of it, |
| 0:49.0 | it can be lonely in Lagos. |
| 0:51.0 | Lagos is a very busy city. |
| 0:54.0 | Everybody is rushing around doing this or that. |
| 0:57.7 | But Lagos is still a very lonely city. |
| 1:02.1 | Only in Lagot. |
| 1:06.0 | By the time 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, |
| 1:08.0 | rolled round. |
| 1:09.0 | Everyone goes home or you're stuck in traffic. |
| 1:17.0 | People are tired, people are exhausted, people are working hard, people aren't finding themselves in situations that allow them to meet people organically. |
| 1:22.0 | I feel the loneliness at airports. When I'm traveling and there's no one that calls me, or when I need advice, and I need somebody that really knows me intimately somebody that I can be |
| 1:35.5 | completely honest and open with but there's no one there. |
| 1:38.9 | The Heart of Learningness is when you can't be all of yourself. |
| 1:45.0 | Don't know is the problem when you don't have food to eat. |
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