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The oldest bakery in Kenya now under family's 4th generation

Dividers at Fayaz Bakers Limited, Bakari Salim [left] and Liverson Mghanga work at the Fayaz bakers baking plant in Mombasa. The bakery employ 500 Kenyans who are trained locally. 1st June 2021. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

Kenya’s founding president Jomo Kenyatta was just 14 years old when Fayaz Bakers Limited started its operations in Mombasa in 1911.

The bakery, which started as a tiny shop in Mombasa, has baked through two World Wars, Kenya’s independence and into a new century.

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