Chika Onyeani

Chika A. Onyeani is a Nigerian journalist, publisher, former diplomat, and author. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the African Sun Times, a New York–based newspaper. He is best known for his controversial book Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success. A Spider-Web Doctrine (2000), in which he argues that Black communities should become producers rather than consumers and advocates what he calls the "Spider Web Economic Doctrine." His writings focus on entrepreneurship, economic self-reliance, Pan-African development, and Black economic empowerment, though they have also attracted substantial criticism for their use of racial stereotypes and provocative language.

Quotes

• 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.
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• 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.
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• We have as little today than when most of the African countries received independence from their colonial masters.
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• We must abandon the victim mentality baggage that we've carried for so long: the notion that somebody owes us something.
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• We've got to stop whining and stop begging. The Black race needs to wake up and stand on it's own feet.
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• It is not what you call me, but what I answer to, that matters most.
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Capitalist Nigger (2000)

• 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.

• 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.

• Africans have a stance, 'live for today, let tomorrow take care of itself and be damned' attitude.

• Though it resulted in millions of my people being taken as slaves to the New World, America, I can still duff my hat to a small group of individuals who had the tenacity to cross the Atlantic Ocean to open America to the world. You have to admire the courage of the small group of diabolical individuals who set out to invade Africa and take our people as slaves.
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• Continental Africans think the world owes them something. We whine and whine about how the Europeans looted our natural resources. Yes, they did, so what? We allowed them to do it, and we are still allowing them to do it even today. There is too much whining among Africans, Blacks, continental Africans and Africans in the Diaspora - whine, whine, whine ad nauseam. We are beggars. We beg for everything. If you need something, be a man. Go and get it! Don't start whining for somebody to do it or get it for you.
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