Beyond Business: Dangote, a patriotic Nigerian, by Yusuf Alhaji Lawan As a management student, nearly two decades ago, I studied a course on the purpose of business. The content presented a discussion in a conversational manner between Ford and General Motors, the producers of first-generation cars in the world. Henry Ford famously argued that a business existing solely for profit is a poor enterprise, while early corporate thinkers, like the founders of General Motors, insisted that the business of business is business. This tension between profit as an end and...