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Baringo ‘beauty queen’ cheered on by honey bees

Diana Chebotibin holds a bottle of packaged honey that she produces in Marigat in Baringo county. [PHOTO: WILBERFORCE OKWIRI/STANDARD]

The first time we meet Diana Chebotibin, a successful bee farmer, is at a county expo at Nairobi’s Kenyatta International Convention Centre.

Weeks later, we are at her home village in Bogoria, a little past 8pm. Bees hover around her in a frenzied buzz. She neither fidgets nor swats at the stingers.

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