Alhassan Dantata’s business dynasty

Alhassan Dantata is the father of the late Aminu Dantata and the founder of the Dantata business dynasty. He is also the great-grandfather of Aliko Dangote.

The late Alhassan was a philanthropist and the richest businessman in Kano in the 1920s. In 1929, when the Bank of British West Africa…