Aidan Hartley
Aidan Hartley (born 1965) is a writer and entrepreneur.
Born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1965, he was educated at Sherborne and studied English at Balliol College, Oxford, then going on to the School of Oriental and African Studies, (SOAS) to study African politics and history.
As a foreign correspondent for the Reuters news agency, Hartley covered Africa in the 1990s - wars in Somalia, famine in Ethiopia and genocide in Rwanda. He is the author of The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He made thirty television documentaries, most of them for the Channel 4 Television award-winning current affairs series Unreported World and "Dispatches". In 2013 he retired from mainstream journalism to focus on private business affairs and book writing. Hartley owns a ranch in Laikipia County, Kenya called Palagalan Farm.
He writes the "Wild Life" column of The Spectator.[1]
Bibliography[]
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- The Zanzibar chest : a memoir of love and war. Harper Collins. 2003.
- Wild life : adventures on an African farm. Heinemann. 2008.
References[]
- ^ "Channel 4 - News - China's Olympic Lie". Channel 4. Archived from the original on 17 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
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