Capitalist Nigger is an explosive and
jarring indictment of the black race. The book asserts that the Negroid race, as
naturally endowed as any other, is culpably a non-productive race, a consumer
race that depends on other communities for its culture, its language, its
feeding and its clothing. Despite enormous natural resources, blacks are
economic slaves because they lack the ‘devil-may-care’ attitude and the ‘killer
instinct’ of the Caucasian, as well as the spider web mentality of the Asian. A
Capitalist Nigger must embody ruthlessness in pursuit of excellence in his
drive towards achieving the goal of becoming an economic warrior. In putting
forward the idea of the Capitalist Nigger, Chika Onyeani charts a road to
success whereby black economic warriors employ the ‘Spider Web Doctrine’ –
discipline, self-reliance, ruthlessness – to escape from their victim mentality.
Born in Nigeria, Chika Onyeani is a journalist, editor and former diplomat.
