Alhassan Dantata
Alhassan Dantata (1877 – 17 August 1955) was a Northern Nigerian trader in kola nuts, ground nuts and distributor of European goods. He supplied large British trading companies with raw materials and also had business interests in the Gold Coast. At the time of his death he was one of the wealthiest men in West Africa.
Early life
Parents
Dantata was born in Bebeji in 1877, one of several children of Abdullahi and his wife Amarya. Both his parents were wealthy Agalawa, a heredity group of long distance traders in the Hausa empire. Abdullahi died in Bebeji around 1885.
Abdullahi's children were too young to manage his considerable wealth. They all received their portion according to Islamic law. Amarya, like her mother in law, was a trader of wealth in her own right. After her husband's death, she decided to leave Bebeji for Accra where she had commercial interests. She left the children in Bebeji, in the care of an old slave woman named Tata.
The young Alhassan became known as Alhassan Dantata because of Tata's role as his 'mother' (" Dan-tata" means "son of Tata" in Hausa language). His name indicates she was a strong influence in his early life.
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