Author Bio
• Birth—1965
• Where—Nairobi, Kenya
• Education—Oxford University
• Currently—lives in Kenya
Aidan Hartley is a Kenyan journalist. He was born in Nairobi in 1965. From age 7-12 he attended Ravenswood School, a boarding school near Tiverton in Devon, England. He graduated from Oxford and the School of Oriental and African Studies, (SOAS) with a degree in Area Studies.
As a foreign correspondent for 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 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. (From Wikipedia.)