THE CAPITALIST NIGER
Until we accept this fact, and stop
the hullucinegic dream of pointing to a scattering few of our members who have been successful, we
will continue to build our castle in the sky – and we definitely know what building a castle in the sky
means. It comes crashing down.
(This is a fact you should know: Though Africans spend more than $40 million a day eating Chinese food,
no African is employed in any of these establishments, whether restaurants or laundries. On a daily
average, about 8 million Africans eat Chinese food at an average cost of $5. That is almost $15 billion a
year that we are investing in another community. Have you ever seen a Chinese eating at an African
restaurant?)
However, these practices must come into play when we are deciding to buy big tickets items, such as
cars, refrigerators, televisions or any big ticket item costing over a $1,000. Cars are especially important,