Sanusi Dantata

Sanusi Dantata (c. 1919 - 15 Afrilu 1997) ya kasance attajiri ne na Najeriya kuma ɗan Alhassan Dantata . Ya kasance darektan reshen Najeriya na Shell B.P. kuma wanda ya kafa Sanusi Dantata da 'ya'ya maza masu iyaka.

 Ayyukan kasuwanci 
Dantata kawai ya kammala shekaru hudu na karatu a Makarantar Firamare ta Dala kafin ya bar saboda mahaifinsa ya fi son aiki a kasuwanci zuwa ilimin Yammacin ga 'ya'yansa. Lokacin da yake dan shekara 16, an ba shi rabon kasuwancin shanu na mahaifinsa, sayen shanu a arewa da jigilar jiragen kasa zuwa Legas don sayarwa. Bayan haka, ya kara sayen kayan kwalliya da jigilar kaya a matsayin wani ɓangare na aikinsa. Koyaya, an tilasta masa sayar da yawancin sufuri da kasuwancin shanu a shekara ta 1947 kuma daga baya ya kara da shi a kan dukiya.Spear Magazine. (1963). 'Alhaji Dantata A Man of Means'.  Spear magazine (a Daily Times Publication), P. 23 Ya kasance a cikin kasuwancin ƙasa da ƙasa lokacin da mahaifinsa ya mutu a shekarar 1955. Mahaifinsa ya bar wasiyya da za a raba tsakanin 'ya'yansa goma sha tara da matansa uku suna bin dokar Maliki. Kashi na Dantata na tsabar kudi daga wasiƙar ya kai sama da $ 12,000 amma ya riga ya zama mai arziki a wannan lokacin. Ya yi amfani da gado don farfado da kasuwancin sufuri da manyan motoci.A cikin shekarun 1960, shi ne mafi girman wakilin sayen kayan masarufi a Najeriya. Koyaya, a shekara ta 1980, ya bar wasu sha'awar kasuwancinsa ga 'ya'yansa maza, gami da babba, Abdulkadir Sanusi Dantata, wanda ya kafa Dantata da Sawoe da Asada Farms.Tom G. Forrest. The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise, University of Virginia Press. p 209. 

Dantata kuma ya kasance mai ba da agaji, a shekara ta 1963, yana kashe kusan fam 40,000 a kowace shekara don bashi ga abokai da matalauta kuma yana ba da kuɗi ga kowane ɗayan yaransa da surukansa.

Iyalin Dantata suna gudanar da kasuwancin su a wani bangare ta hanyar tsarin mallakar bashi, kasuwanci da canja wurin kasuwanci ga dangi, gida da sauran mambobin abokan ciniki. A wani lokaci, duka Sanusi da ɗan'uwansa, Aminu sun mallaki kusan wakilai 200 da ke sayen kwai Kola, dabbobi, Groundnut da Merchandise. Tsarin ya kunshi kimanin matakan cin gashin kansu guda biyar na abokan tarayya, wakilai, da manoma. Wasu mambobin wannan tsarin suna sayen kayayyaki daga yankunan karkara da aka ƙuntata kuma suna jigilar su zuwa birni inda wani rukuni na wakilai a yankin Urban ke sayen kayayyakin kuma suna adana su maimakon Dantata. Har ila yau, dangin Dantata ta hanyar aure da tsawaita bashi suna da alaƙa da wasu iyalai masu zaman kansu a Kano da Arewacin Najeriya.Jane I. Guyer. Feeding African Cities: Studies in Regional Social History, Indiana University Press, 1987. p 87-91. 

 Musulunci 
Ya kuma kasance aboki na masanin Qadiriyya, Ali Kumasi kuma ya goyi bayan wasu ayyukan addini na wannan a Kano. Taimako da ya yi wa Ali Kumasi ya kai shi cikin rikici da Nasiru Kabara, shugaban ƙungiyar Qadiriyya a Kano da Afirka ta Yamma kuma tsohon mai koyar da Sanusi. Dukansu Kumasi da Dantata sun yi ƙoƙari su inganta ƙwarewar Qadiriyya mai zaman kanta da ikon addini, suna kalubalantar jagorancin Kabara. Koyaya, a farkon shekarun 1970s, maza biyu sun shiga ƙungiyar Kabara ta Kano Qadiriyya.Roman Loimeier. Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria, Northwestern University
Press, 1997. p 65-70. 

 Manazarta 

 Haɗin waje 

 "Miliyoyin Najeriya" a cikin mujallar TIME
 Labari Aliko Dangote, yana ambaton tasirin Dantata
Rukuni:Mutuwan 1997