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Aidan Hartley (born 1965) is a Kenyan journalist.

Hartley 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.

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