All of that looks like a good investment if you have sufficient stability (including cooperation from fellow kleptocrats) to have a serious chance at harvesting

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