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Ayigbe biscuit

Ghanaian snack

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ96276502 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ayigbe biscuit is a Ghanaian snack created by Yonunawo Kwami Edze from Agbozume in the Volta Region.

History

The biscuit was manufactured by Yonunawo Kwami Edze from Agbozome in the Volta Region. Yonunawo Kwami Edze introduced the biscuit to the Agbozome community when she returned from the Ivory Coast as a baker in 1907. She was able to use the skills she learnt to make Ayigbe biscuits. Production of this snack lends itself to being economically viable, as Yonunawo Kwami Edze trained women on how to prepare the biscuit in order to make a living.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ayigbe biscuit” as ghanaian snack. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1907—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ayigbe, biscuit and Ghanaian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as ghanaian snack. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q96276502. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1907.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ayigbe biscuit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.