“A small white minority seizes control of the state apparatus, quashes the judiciary, censors the media, imprisons opposition leaders, and establishes a one-party state.” This line does not describe ...

In the chamber of the U.N. Security Council last week, there was an unsettling sense of history repeated. The gallery was crowded, and delegates representing most of the world’s nations stood in knots ...

Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, has died at age 88. Smith, who recently ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...