“Last man standing”, a tribute to Aminu Dantata, and his generation who participated in the phenomenal exports of colonial Nigeria, by Munzali Dantata Aminu Dantata was one of the eighteen surviving offsprings of Alhassan Dantata when I was growing up in the 1960s. Most of them lived on the same street founded by their father, around 1910, when he relocated to Kano from the Gold Coast, following the emerging groundnut trade in Nigeria. The kilometer-long Sarari Street was lined with warehouses on both sides of the road, with a few residential...