SB Bakare

Saliu Bolaji Bakare dan kasuwa ne dan Najeriya wanda ya mallaki daya daga cikin manyan kasuwancin stevedore a Najeriya a shekarun 1960. Tun da farko yana ba da sabis na ma'aikata ga layukan dogo na Najeriya, daga baya ya tsawaita hidimar zuwa bangaren sufurin jiragen ruwa tare da samun wasu kadarorin William Hamilton Biney.Forrest, Tom (Tom (1994). The
advance of African capital : the growth of
Nigerian private enterprise . Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia. p. 256.
ISBN 0813915627 . OCLC 30355123 . 

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An haifi Bakare a shekarar 1922 a garin Ilesha ga Jegede da Abigail Bakare. Mahaifinsa hamshakin dan kasuwa ne wanda ya rika zuwa yankuna daban-daban na Najeriya domin yin kasuwanci. Ya halarci makarantu biyu a Ilesha, inda ya kammala karatunsa a shekarar 1933 a St John's Anglican, Iloro, Ilesha.  Ya shiga sana’ar mahaifinsa ya koma yankin Arewa inda ya yi aiki a matsayin magatakarda. A cikin shekarar 1940, ya shiga aikin soja a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu, kuma ya yi aiki a Gambia. Bayan haka, ya yi aiki na ɗan lokaci tare da sojoji kafin ya tafi ya kafa kasuwancin kwangila. Da farko dai sana’ar tana kai wa sojoji kayan abinci, ya samu hutu lokacin da aka ba shi kwangilar kiyayewa daga aikin soja, daga baya ya kafa sana’ar stevedore da ke samar da ma’aikata a layin dogo.Ayeni, Segun (May 3, 1969). "A
Tycoon who started business with just 41
pounds". Daily Sketch (Microfilm). Ibadan.
p. 6.  Bakare ya fadada sana’ar zuwa samar da kayayyakin gini, daga baya ya zama dan kwangila ga hukumar tashar jiragen ruwa da kuma manyan jiragen ruwa a Legas. 

Bakare ya mallaki kulob na dare na Surulere, daya daga cikin wuraren da Fela ke da shi, kuma wuri na farko da Fela ke kira shrine. Barrett, Lindsay. "Fela Kuti: Chronicle of A
Life Foretold - The Wire" . The Wire
Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music .
Retrieved 2018-09-14.

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