THE CAPITALIST NIGER
non-productive but rather a consumer race. I have gone on to question the intelligence of my people
especially when they continue to patronize groups which have utter contempt for them. I have utter
contempt for my own people for their incredible patronage of Japanese products when these people
have nothing but utter disregard for the Black race as articulated by their leaders, who have publicly said
that Africans are inferior. I question our intelligence for our attitude and ingratiating patronage of the
Japanese, and I will tend to agree with them that our behaviour makes us an inferior race.
I have exhaustively discussed the problem of the Black race in the previous chapters. Although it is not
my intention to indulge in that here, I must reiterate my contention that the Black race has arrived at
this stage because we lack the “devil-may-care” and “the killer-instinct” attitude of the Caucasian race.