Australians have rich history in Kenya

Cattle grazing at a farm in Rumuruti recently. Harold White, an Australian who settled in the area after the First World War, was a prominent livestock farmer. [File, Standard]

Obsession with the present can deny us the joy of the past and its lessons. It’s in that spirit that I decided to follow a historical thread after finding out that the father to Alison Chartres, the current Australian high commissioner to Kenya, once worked as an assistant farm manager in Nyandarua County just before independence.