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Juliana, The Queen of the Bees

My Encounter and Life With the Queen of the Bees and the Yaaku People

by Makena Brandon · Published by Discussion Publishers · Sponsored by Utu Heritage

Juliana, The Queen of the Bees follows Juliana Loshiro — one of the youngest fluent speakers of Yaakunte and a beekeeper who reads a hive the way others read weather — across four days of tea and mandazi, fire and nyama choma, an elder's gifted log hive, and cave walls painted long before anyone called this place Laikipia. It is a portrait of the Yaaku: a people whose language, forest and bees survive only together.