Sanusi Dantata

Sanusi Dantata was born around 1919 in Kano State, Nigeria into the wealthy family of Alhaji (Dr.) Aminu Alhassan Dantata. He was a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist.

Sanusi Dantata Age

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Sanusi Dantata Early Life

Dantata spent only a few years at Dala Elementary School before joining his family's business. At 16, his father gave him a share of his cattle rearing business. He also left him a will that amounted to over $12,000, though he was already a wealthy man at the time.

Sanusi Dantata Career

Under British rule, Danata became rich trading commodities like grain oats and rice, and was one of Kano’s wealthiest citizens. In the 1960s, he was the largest licensed produce-buying agent of groundnut in the country. Said to be benevolent, he spent about £40,000 each year to support his friends and the poor.

Alongside his brother Aminu, Dantata controlled about 200 agents involved in buying kolanut, livestock, groundnuts and merchandise, using about five autonomous levels of associates, agents, and farmers. The system involved buying goods from restricted rural areas, transporting them to the city and storing them in warehouses. 

Sanusi Dantata Personal Life

A devote Muslim, Dantata was friend to Islamic studies and supported financially to the growth of the religion. He was married and had children including Mariya Sanusi Dantata and Alhaji Abdulkadir Dantata, one of Nigeria’s wealthiest and most popular businessmen. He is also the grandfather of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. He died in Germany on April 15th, 1997.

Sanusi Dantata Net Worth

His net worth is not available.

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