Making excellent use of neglected Zambian archives, Tembo surveys the impact of World War II on colonial Zambia, or Northern Rhodesia, as it was then called. Readers will find much to appreciate in ...

When able, ambitious Iain Macleod asked Harold Macmillan for a crack at running the Colonial Office after the 1959 elections, he knew he was taking on a post that could break or make a politician.

The settlers’ hopes rest on Central African Federation, a plan to unite self-governing Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland (TIME. Feb. 9).

Blood and words: writing history with (and about) vampire stories -- Historicizing rumor and gossip -- "Bandages on your mouth": the experience of colonial medicine in East and Central Africa -- "Why ...