Aidan Hartley (born 1965), 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.
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
