In the 1940s, Alhassan Dantata was the richest 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 opened an account with British Bank of West Africa (now First Bank) with 20 camel-loads of silver coins in Kano, Nigeria in 1929
His great grandson, Aliko Dangote is the World's Richest Black Man...
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