The continent is only now beginning to assert its influence on the world stage
By Aidan Hartley
For all the chair-throwing and rioting, the country’s democracy is maturing
By Aidan Hartley
‘I’m happy to see young people turning away from all that bongo and jump music’
By Aidan Hartley
In my life I have enjoyed wonderful sea safaris on dhows, hunting for tuna and ambergris and waves to surf
By Aidan Hartley
While the diplomats did nothing, mothers negotiated the Lollipop Airlift that would bring their kids home
By Aidan Hartley
I was the only foreign correspondent there — and it was the best day of my life
By Aidan Hartley
As we emerge from the pandemic, I’m going long on Dorpers
By Aidan Hartley
I live outdoors and rarely encounter another human, so perhaps my infection was the result of zoonosis
By Aidan Hartley
Unlike elsewhere, Kenya’s cities throng with life: crowded markets, gridlocked traffic, busy bars and shops
By Aidan Hartley
Following Mum’s death, I have been staying quietly at her home on the beach in a whirlpool of memories
By Aidan Hartley
She would live on mushrooms for a month, then put us up in the finest Parisian hotel
By Aidan Hartley
Like most parents we got to spend much more time with our children than we might otherwise have done
By Aidan Hartley
Looking at the parched lands of the disputed territory, it was as if two bald men were fighting over a comb
By Aidan Hartley
Out of an envelope fell an original poem scribbled and signed by Rudyard Kipling
By Aidan Hartley
