We Are Not Poor. We Are Being Kept Poor
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Cameroon has oil, gas, fertile land, minerals, and a young population. By almost every measure of potential, it should be one of Africa’s success stories. Yet its GDP per capita in 2024 is still lower than it was in 1986. We Are Not Poor. We Are Being Kept Poor argues that this is not a story of missing resources or simple bad luck. It is the result of a single interconnected chain: debt that fails to build, governance that fails to enforce, an economy that has lost its industrial base, and an education system that produces graduates with nowhere to go. Drawing on data, history, and policy analysis, this book shows how each failure feeds the next and why fixing any one of them in isolation has never been enough. This book does not offer another list of Cameroon’s problems. It shows how those problems are linked, and why understanding the chain is the first step toward breaking it.