In this series of articles, Kris shares greater detail about his beekeeping adventures in individual countries, with lots of photos and insights into the connections made from a shared love of bees and beekeeping!

In 2012, after about a decade as a professional beekeeper in California, I found myself taken by beekeeping to somewhere completely different – Nigeria in western sub-Saharan Africa.

Nigeria is about the size of South Australia, with a population 16 times th