Nigeria has had a lot of oil money since the 60’s. Lots of it spent on corruption, crack, hookers, etc. But lots of it still spent on infrastructure and education. There are still cultural practices that are dangerous wrt ebola though. I thought the ‘if someone is dead, he is dead, leave him there!’. exhortation was kind of funny, given the circumstances.
Senegal is a basket case in comparison though. One reason this spread so quickly early on I suspect was the reluctance of the governments to enforce quarantines and travel restrictions that might cause the Westerners to pull up stakes. It’s difficult to conceive, if you’re an American, just how desperately poor these countries are. Decisions that were made were the wrong ones, in hindsight. I have little faith that our ‘leaders’ will do any better wrt safety juxtaposed with money.