I am slowly getting more info on the African Bee (not africanized bee).
Very interesting to think what is Africa. it's area is 3 times larger than Europea. Afr. 30 mil. km2 Eur 10,3 mil. m2.
How many stock we have in Europa and how many in Africa?
Very interesting information was that Western Europen bee stock ( German Black or North Bee) is more relative to African bee than Italian, Carniolan etc.
The African bees have never been domesticated
When we think about domestication of European honey bee, there are 2 big innovation in this issue
1) Movable frame that you may change the queen when ever
2) insemination that you may control mating and develope rapidly stocks .
......I get my first inseminated queens 20 years ago.
When we read reports from bees in winderness, they swarm and they are agressive, like they ought to keep themselves alive in nature.
In our country queen rearing was difficult because unselected German Black bees were everywhere and they were quick to mate with all kind of races. When varroa come and killed German Blacks, beekeeping has been much more easier.