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Building wealth through unity with your friends
The spiderweb doctrine by the author of Capitalist Nigger’
Boago Sephutho
February 19, 2025
Good morning 😃🌞☀️
Honestly today I just really want to rant than I want to share lessons. This is to do with what I have already shared regarding the book ‘Capitalist Nigger’ an important lesson that I will have to share again.
Reading that book revealed to me the real secret of wealth building and that word is ‘unity’. If there is a secret I just revealed it to you, ‘unity’.
Unity is having the same goal, and going the same direction including motive. I think the big problem with us Africans is the lack of it. I have observed that we often come together to agree on uniting our buying power to spending on buying things that we will consume but we can’t do the same when it comes to uniting to buy things that produce.
We unite to buy food from stokvel, beer, and even vacation but never for opening a business or buying an income generating asset. In fact this is what the author of the book said:
" 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."
-Chika Onyeani- ‘Capitalist Nigger’
He laments this problem of being so consumer minded but then gives a solution with the ‘Spiderweb doctrine:
“The basis of Onyeani's argument is that Blacks must mimic Asian people and adopt what he calls a "spider-web doctrine". According to Onyeani, by adopting this economic concept Blacks will be able to attract wealth to their communities, and trap it there as a spider traps flies.[1] This is the basis for the book's assertions; that Blacks must only purchase Black-manufactured goods, patronize Black stores, or eat in Black establishments, etc.
-Chika Onyeani ‘Capitalist Nigger’
This is powerful and it happens only when we’re united with the thought of wealth building.
Like I once said on my other article our biggest problem is that we want to keep up with the Jones but it’s hurting us because our buying power is spent on consumer goods.
As for me I’ve been talking with my life long friend of how we can unite to build wealth together since last year and we are working on the date to begin our wealth building journeys, because this is important. Instead of competing to prove to each other that our lives are better than our peers why don’t we build with each other.