Refusing to take a “no” for an answer, the Daily Trust Team worked round the clock on how to get greater insights into the life...
By Sunday Michael Ogwu Refusing to take a “no” for an answer, the Daily Trust Team worked round the clock on how to get greater insights into the life of Alhaji Aminu Dantata. The Team reached out to Dr. Munzali Dantata, a cousin of the Sage who graciously obliged.
Relationship with Aminu Dantata He is a younger brother to my father. My father died when I was just three years old, so, he became my foster father, and so, he is the father I know. Because I only know my biological father by photograph.
Thankfully, in those days pictures were very much around. So, I have grown up with Baba. I call him Baba Aminu.
He sent me to school together with my brothers and sisters from my father and his children. So, we were a big family. Today, there are about 50 of us still alive apart from a few that have died.
Baba’s world view First of all, in his world outlook, I will say he has a modern approach to life. He is somebody who has both a traditional life and a modern life. He was born 92 years ago during the colonial period that is 1931.
He was born into a merchant family and he worked for his father and the company that his father created. So, he has that experience of at least about 10 years or a dozen years of the colonialists. If you take it from when he finished his schooling and became a young man of about 20 years, that is early 50s; which i.