Aidan Hartley

Aidan Hartley

Aidan Hartley (born 1965), formerly was a foreign correspondent for Reuters news agency, assigned to Africa.

Hartley was born in Nairobi in 1965. Hartley covered the tumultuous Africa of the 1990s - wars in Somalia, famine in Ethopia, genocide in Rwanda. He is the author of "The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands", which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He is currently a columnist for The Spectator, and a correspondent for Unreported World. [cite web
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Bibliography

*(2003) "The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War", Harper Collins, ISBN 0002570599
*(2008) "Wild Life: Adventures on an African Farm", Heinemann, ISBN 0434013838

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