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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Blustering, threatening and reasoning, probing for weak spots and grasping at straws, the Prime Ministers of Great Britain and Rhodesia played out their desperate bluffing game last week. At the end ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... HARARE, Zimbabwe — Ian Smith — Rhodesia’s last white prime minister, whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into ...

In 1896 Tom Burnet settled in Bulawayo in what was then Rhodesia. As Robert Mugabe prepares for elections next month, Burnet’s great-grandson Mark Olden travels to Zimbabwe to uncover his ancestor’s ...

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 ...