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The Story Of How Agege Bread Started

Mr Amos Shackleford moved to Nigeria from Jamaica in 1913, specifically to Ebute Metta in lagos to join the railway industry but quit in 1921 and embarked on a new venture of bread making ...


Amos and his wife Catherine were one of the first people to set up a bakery in Nigeria in Agege, Lagos.
Prior to this, bread was mostly imported from the West Indies.
He introduced the dough brake, a kneading device which gives the agege bread texture that we all know today as Agege bread...

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