Seriki Musulumi of Lagos, Bey of the Ottoman Empire
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1894–95
Mohammed Shitta-Bey (19 December 1824 – 4 July 1895), alias Olowo Pupa,[1] was the first titled Seriki Musulumi (a Nigerian chieftain) of Lagos. He was a prominent Nigerian Muslim businessman, aristocrat and philanthropist who was involved in commerce across Lagos and the Niger-Delta region.
He was also a patron of the Shitta-Bey Mosque in Lagos, and served as a leader in the Lagos Muslim community until his death.[2] He is known to be one of the founding fathers of legitimate commerce in precolonial Nigeria; as at the time of his death he was the most prominent and wealthiest Muslim trader in West Africa.
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^Conference of Muslim Lecturers and Administrative Staff of Nigerian Universities (1970). Nigerian Journal of Islam. Vol. 1–2. University of Ife Bookshop Limited, 1970. p. 25. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
^Ostien & Makinde 2012, p. 57.
^Cole 2013, p. 135.
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