Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success: A Spider-Web Doctrine [Paperback]

Chika A. Onyeani (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 17, 2000

CAPITALIST NIGGER excels as an explosive and jarring indictment of the Black Race. Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success (Timbuktu Publishers, September 17, 2000) asserts that the Black Race, is a consumer race and not a productive race. Says the author, Chika Onyeani, "We are a conquered race and it is utterly foolish for us to believe that we are independent. The Black Race depends on other communities for its culture, its language, its feeding, and its clothing." "Despite enormous natural resources," according to the author, "Blacks are economic slaves because they lack the "killer-instinct" and "devil-may-care" attitude of the Caucausian, as well as the "spider web economic mentality" of the Asian." The author is not afriad to use the most hated word, the 'N' word as a title of his book. He says, "It is not what you call me, but what I answer to, that matters most." The further asserts that "Blacks are economic slaves. We are owned lock stock and barrel by people of European-origin ... I am tired of hearing Blacks always blaming others for their lack of progress in this world; I am tired of the whining and victim-mentality. I am tired of listening to the same complaint, day in day out - racism this, racism that. It's getting us nowhere." "Africans have a stance, 'live for today, let tomorrow take care of itself and be damned' attitude," the author says. "We've become a sheep-like consumer race that depends on other communities for our culture, language, feeding, and clothing. We've become economic slaves in Western society." CAPITALIST NIGGER reserves its harshest criticism for African leaders, who according to Onyeani, have allowed Europeans and others to pillage and plunder Africa's wealth, without anything to show for it, other than more starvation, disease, and dictatorships. "We have as little today than when most of the African countries received independence from their colonial masters," Onyeani says. CAPITALIST NIGGER is an anguished cry to the Black race to wake up, stand up and move on." "We must abandon the victim mentality baggage that we've carried for so long: the notion that somebody owes us something," the author says. "We've got to stop whining and stop begging. The Black race needs to wake up and stand on it's own feet." Says Onyeani, "We need to recognize and learn from others what it takes to succeed. We need to adopt the "devil-may-care" attitude and the "killer-instinct and whatever-it-takes attitude" of the white Caucasian, and the "spider web economic mentality" of the Asian."

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Editorial Reviews

Review

"...definitive book on the Black Race that every Black person would like to have written, but didn't have the courage." -- Andreaus Guilty, TV personality

"This is a book of passionate sense of outrage and collective self-reproach. The beginning of self-reform is self-criticism. -- Ali A. Mazrui, D. Phil., (Oxon), Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Onyeani is a journalist of international acclaim, distinction and recognition. A former diplomat, he is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the African Sun Times, which has received numerous awards for journalistic excellence. A sought-after speaker, Onyeani is an alumnus of several major institutions of higher learning, both in England and the United States. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Timbuktu Publishers (October 17, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967846099
• ISBN-13: 978-0967846095
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,234 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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45 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars from an african-american to a african, January 16, 2002

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rodog63jr (bronx, N.Y.C. N.Y. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Capitalist Nigger : The Road to Success (Hardcover)

Mr. Onyeani's book is the best book I read by an African on the state of the race in Africa and the rest of the Diaspora. He pulls no punches in showing how Africans worldwide are economically dependent on others. He criticizes his fellow Africans in Africa, African immigrants in the u.s., African-Americans, and Caribbean-Americans. He shows the lack of entrepreneurship by Africans can be traced to a deep belief of the inate inferiority of our race and the superiority of other races. He is correct in saying that many Africans have more reverance for the European, the Asian, the Jew and others than for God. One can look at our women and men who dye their hair all colors of the spectrum. Carlos Cooks of the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement said that the hair has more sense than this brainwashed person, because it always returns to its natural state.

The book calls for aggressive pursuit of capitalism, taking charge of one's destiny, and seeking out advice in your path to success. It puts out a challenge to Africans, "If you see yourselves as equal to other human beings, you must prepare yourself to play and win the game of capitalism as we do in sports, music dance and the military .This book also makes subtle calls for Black unity that has been call ed for by various leaders such Marcus Garvey, Carlos Cooks, Malcolm X, Kwame Ture (stokely Carmichael) Kwame Nkrumah and others. A united Black world economically independent will be a site to behold. I have committed myself to buying the author's newspaper "the African Sun-Times" in order to better understand and communicate with my brothers and sisters from the motherland.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Read, August 24, 2006

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Elijah Chingosho "Dr Elijah Chingosho" (Nairobi, Kenya) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success: A Spider-Web Doctrine (Paperback)

This is an interesting book on the economic and social situation of Africans in Africa and the diaspora. The author is very critical of the economic underdevelopment and dependence of African peoples on other races. He ascribes this to inferiority complex and lack of self-confidence and self-discipline in the ability of African peoples to be world-renowned successful entrepreneurs, industrialists, scientists and engineers. He cites several examples of ineptitude by African leaders with the resource rich African continent being heavily debt-ridden with nothing to show where the money went.

Onyeani believes that by following the capitalist path and doing so aggressively, resolutely, persistently and with confidence, it should be possible to uplift the African race from the bottom layers of society where it is largely settled.

It is easy to dismiss Onyeani's ideas as just rantings of a frustrated African but this introspection is a critical first step towards the mental and economic emancipation of the African race. One can accuse the author of advocating a system of "capitalism" which is inherently oppressive and exploitative and is a creation by the Caucasian race which tends to contradict his basic message. However, such thinking misses the basic point that African needs to catch up or surpass the other races in building a better community characterized by prosperity, progress, mutual assistance and support and unity.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading For All African American Teenagers, July 19, 2006

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R. Jordan "egorho" (Memphis, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success: A Spider-Web Doctrine (Paperback)

I went to the store to purchase "White Guilt" but they were out. I purchased this book instead and I cannot tell you how happy I was to read it. It took me 2 days to read it and then I read it again just to let it all soak in. This book uncovers the secret (at least the secret from African Americans) to be succesful. It should be required reading of all AFrican American teenagers age 16 and up. He explains how India and Koren immigrants to this country have acheived more than blacks have and they we should not whine about White People holding us back because by doing so, you CANNOT be focused on becoming an Economic Warrior, i.e., a Capitalist Nigger.

Buy this book for yourself and instead of money or pen sets for graduation gifts for high school and college graduates, make this your standard gift to them. They will appreciate it for years to come.

I would also suggest reading "Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery" by Na'im Akbar. It is the perfect book to accompany "Capitalist Nigger." Really, they both should be required reading for African American teenagers.