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indigo from his splattered around the ground for consecutive nights. Determined to apprehend the perpetrator, he stayed awake for one night and discovered it was a young Dan Marina playing around the pits before slipping away. Following the baby, the dyer found him sleeping beside his mother's grave in the graveyard. The dyer then took him in and raised him as part of his own family.
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Little is known about Dan Marina's early life. According to a local legend in
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and other urban centres. Among the influential mallamai was Dan Marina who lived in the Marina quarter of Birnin
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from 'the east', was hosted by a dyer named Kayaba. His mother was the daughter of
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