Sub-Saharan African Countries, Public Policymaking, Challenges, Flaws and Lessons for Human Growth or Distortion Focus on Post-COVID-19 Appraisal in Cameroon

Abstract

Historically, public policymaking, in its most primitive or developed processes, form and character, remains the preeminent and most powerful political tool of governance in all societies. Its prominence is next only to God’s omnipresence and omnipotent in shaping man’s livelihood and his environment. Irrefutably, after creating the earth and its dwellers, the shaping of these dwellers - natural resources or primary goods, to suit man’s secondary needs, radiates through man’s mindset in the form of planned or unplanned actions or inactions (polices). Given its preeminence and permeation over man, the why, for what, when, which kind, for who and how, eventually fashion the character of man’s secondary needs production, which expedite or dissuade his livelihood. Herein, I argue that, since policymaking, irrespective of its form and character, is man’s preeminence action or inaction, must prominently preoccupy people’s mindsets, especially the rulers. Paradoxically, in most sub-Saharan African countries, policymaking suffers gratuitous inadequacies due to the imbued unpredictable measurable processes. Consequently, in Cameroon, like other sub-Saharan African countries, dissuades policymaking emerging from unpredictable and immeasurable processes, thus, rendering governance hostile to livelihood.