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In the 1940s, Alhassan Dantata ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ was the richeล›t person in West Africa.

In the 1940s, Alhassan Dantata ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ was the richeล›t person in West Africa.

He worked with kolanuts and built the Kano Groundnut Pyramids. Each pyramid had 15,000 filled bags.

He was a supplier to British trading companies.

Alhassan Dantata รฒpened an account with British Bank of West Africa (now First Bank Nigeria) with 20 camel-loads of silver coins in Kano, Nigeria in 1929

His great grandson, Aliko Dangote is the World’s Rรญchest Black person.

 

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