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Alhassan Dantata

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314: 425:. By 1918, after being approached by the company, Dantata had established a large network of agents and sub-agents to purchase groundnuts. His experience in coastal trade and basic knowledge of English gave him an advantage over other Kano merchants working with the company. His frugality and modest lifestyle enabled him to "accumulate capital rapidly". He soon became the Niger Company’s largest supplier and, by 1922, one of the wealthiest men in Kano. 566:
company he had established, Alhassan Dantata & Sons, urging them to ensure it did not collapse. He asked them to continue marrying within the family as much as possible and urged them to avoid clashes with other wealthy Kano merchants. He also told them to take care of their relatives, especially the poor among them. Three days later, on Wednesday, August 17, 1955, he died in his sleep. He was buried in his house in the Sarari ward.
340:(ceramic moneybox), which is still in possession of the Dantata family today. At about 15 years old, he joined a Gonja-bound caravan to visit his mother in Accra, hoping to rely on her wealth rather than having to support himself. However, a day after his arrival, she took him to a Mallam (Islamic teacher) and asked him to stay there until he was ready to return to Kano. During this period, Dantata lived as an 385: 546:. In 1927, he sponsored 16 persons for pilgrimage to Mecca, including his Mallam from when he lived as an almajiri in Accra in the early 1890s. He continued this practice throughout his life and encouraged his children to carry on the tradition. His son, Aminu, and his grandchildren, like Mariya Sanusi Dantata, as well as his great-grandchildren, including 405:
and Lagos, and reached Accra by sea. Soon after, he began using this route to transport his kolanuts to Lagos, where he resold them to traders bound for Kano, becoming one of the first northern traders to use these routes commercially. In 1906, he diversified his trade by dealing in beads, necklaces,
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In the early 1950s, with the assistance of the United Africa Company (UAC), he became a direct importer of consumer goods from Europe. He was the leading agent for the UAC and was advanced credit of up to £500,000 for crop purchase. In 1953, he became the first Nigerian licensed buying agent for the
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Because Dantata scarcely kept any records and only used a bank when his transactions required it, no one knew with any degree of certainity how much he was worth. After his death, his only safe contained a checkbook for each of the two Kano banks, with balances totaling less than £30. With the help
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opened a branch in Kano, he famously deposited twenty camel-loads of silver coins, becoming the first Kano businessman to use a bank. By the 1940s, he buys and sells about 20,000 tons of groundnut in a year. During this period, Nigeria had become one of the world’s leading groundnut producers, with
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In 1955, Dantata became seriously ill. Recognising the seriousness of his illness, he summoned his chief financial controller of 38 years, Garba Maisikeli, and his children. He told them that his days were nearing their end and advised them to live together. He was particularly concerned about the
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but redeemed himself after the war. The second suggests he immediately redeemed himself and Sidi using his existing wealth. According to the third account, he escaped capture and later redeemed his brother Bala in 1925. The final version claims that he escaped shortly after his capture, joined a
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In the late 1940s, Dantata helped establish the Kano Traders' General Conference, which eventually became the Amalgamated Northern Merchants' Union (ANMU) in the early 1950s. The ANMU received support from the Native Authorities of the region and the Northern Regional Government. The union was
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of his family, some of his wealth was identified by the Kano Native Administration, amounting to around £350,000 in Northern Nigeria alone, before they abandoned the search. Later estimates indicate that, he left more than a third of a million pounds, mostly in cash.
310:. Madobi continued to be Abdullahi’s main base of operations until after Dantata’s birth in 1877, when he permanently moved to Bebeji, a market and fortress town south of Kano. He likely died in 1885 and was buried at his Bebeji residence. 488:(NPC), the most dominant political party in Northern Nigeria at the time, was widely supported by the region’s elites, including the Dantata family who were among the party’s most active supporters. However, Dantata’s two sons, 392:
were used as temporary storage for harvested groundnuts. During the mid-20th century, these structures were widely used in Northern Nigeria, particularly in Kano. Dantata was one of its earliest and most prolific
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Not much is known about Dantata's time in slavery, however, there are four different versions of the story according to historian Abdulkarim Umar Dan Asabe. The first account states that he was taken to
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Dantata's mother was also a "trader of no small consequence in the area". After Abdullahi's death, the widow was not able to remarry due to her considerable reputation. She eventually moved to
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on February 1, 1903, conquering the town after its sarki was killed. He remained there until the roads were safe for travel. Then, he set out for the British Gold Coast, traveling through
344:. After his studies, he had to beg for food to sustain himself and his Mallam. On Thursdays and Fridays, Alhassan worked for money, of which he gave a significant portion to his Mallam. 481:-dominated council, was seen as the Emir’s effort to address concerns regarding the lack of Hausa representation in the council and other high positions in the Native Administration. 445:. He also became involved in transporting, direct importing, real estate, and the construction industry, working directly with the Native Administration. His three eldest sons, 409:
During this period, Dantata moved to Kano city and established a house in the Sarari ward, which was mostly empty at the time. With the expansion of groundnut production in
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and Yusufu. Because the Agalawa supported Tukur, several settlements with large Agalawa communities, including Bebeji, were pillaged by the Yusufawa. The war ended after
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From 1926, Dantata utilised the newly established railway to promote cattle trade with Lagos and revitalized the kolanut trade with
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to represent the merchant class and serve as an adviser on commercial matters. Dantata, the only Hausa member in the historically
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a decade later. However, Dantata, along with his brothers Bala and Sidi, was unable to avoid capture and was sold into slavery.
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nobles ('irelewen'). Dantata's father, Abdullahi, was a son of another prominent Agalawa merchant, Baba Talatin, who came from
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trade routes. He soon became a wealthy merchant through trading textiles, cattle, and slaves for kolanuts from the
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Gonja-bound caravan, and returned to his mother in Accra. In 1914, by the order of the judicial council of Emir
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After losing much of his inheritance from his father, Dantata began working to support himself while attending
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and European cloth. After his mother's death in 1908, he focused his trade on Kano and Lagos.
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origin. The Agalawa were a group of long distance traders who were formerly slaves of
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via boat in the 1920s. On this trip, he also went to England and was presented to
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Dantata was known to slaughter a herd of cattle for the poor each year during
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Kano Province contributing almost half of the country’s groundnut production.
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Usman Dantata: grandson; businessman; founder of Anadariya Farms.
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Index

Dantata
Bebeji
Kano Emirate
Sokoto Caliphate
Kano State
Kano
Northern Region
British Nigeria
Northern People's Congress
Ahmadu
Sanusi
Mamuda
Aminu
Aliko Dangote
Dantata family
Listen
Arabic
romanized
West Africa
Aliko Dangote
Bebeji
Kano Emirate
Agalawa
Tuareg
Katsina
Kano
Madobi
Nupe
Gonja
Akan forests

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