A small white minority seized control of Rhodesia. Tacit support and weak condemnations extended the harmful regime.

“AND how did you like it in Rho-desia?” people asked me when, in 1963, my husband and I returned from living there for three years. Usually they were just being polite and had almost no interest in ...

Although Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence marks a turning point in the history of southern Africa, it is too soon to tell which way southern Africa has turned. Did UDI consolidate ...

When Britain imposed economic sanctions on the rebellious Southern Rhodesian government four months ago, it seemed unrealistic to argue over the terms of any future settlement. The Conservatives ...

To an outsider, the 250,000 whites of Rhodesia would seem to have little need to declare independence from Britain. They seem happy enough as they are. The climate is marvelous, the soil fertile, the ...

Columbia-based author Pamela Courtney has written a memoir called "Hotdogs for Hyenas: A Soul Forged in Rhodesia," which recounts her childhood and early adulthood spent in the bush of the part of ...

As African nationalism surged and London hardened its demands, Southern Rhodesia found itself trapped between a promise of gradual reform and the gathering certainty that compromise was slipping ...

The mid-1970s in Africa were a period of immense political tension and armed conflict, particularly in the small, landlocked nation of Rhodesia. Located northeast of South Africa, Rhodesia became the ...

LIEUTENANT General Peter Walls, who may go down in history as one of the most successful of counter-insurgency commanders, collapsed and died on his way to the Kruger National Park in South Africa, ...

Government House in Salisbury is decorated and furnished in a manner which makes Versailles seem, well, middle-class. Amid the silken splendour of the chairs and the carpets which are so thick you ...