All of that looks like a good investment <i>if</i> you have sufficient stability (including cooperation from fellow kleptocrats) to have a serious chance at harvesting what you sowed.<p>It's probably simply too unstable to do so right now, and a lot of that comes from the top.<p>And <i>that</i> would be a lot of the difference between Cameroon and a poor-ish but more culturally Western country.