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 ...

Of the three British territories that make up the loosely knit Central African Federation, Southern Rhodesia comes closest to following the harsh segregationist ways of South Africa’s apartheid.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Donal Lamont, 92, a Roman Catholic bishop expelled from white-ruled Rhodesia in 1977 for opposing its racial policies, died Aug. 14 in Dublin, Ireland, of causes associated with aging. Ordained a ...

His last years were spent in exile, watching with a mixture of sadness and self-regard as his home country slid deeper into despotism and utter ruin. "I told you so," would serve well as an epitaph ...

The recent celebration by the people of Southern Rhodesia of the Golden Jubilee of the colony recalls that there was a goodly sprinkling of Jews among the early pioneers of Rhodesia. Long before the ...