Colonial DC who banned white women in Turkana

The unforgiving Turkana sun has no antidote for an angry pharmacist whose authority has been questioned. In the forgotten north where few government officers wanted to serve, one tough man, a Nairobi medic turned administrator, lorded over it for 12 years and introduced harsh rules.

The pharmacist, Leslie Whitehouse, was unmarried by choice. However, when he was posted to Turkana at his own request in 1940s as the District...