Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Britain's rebellious colony of Rhodesia, who once promised that white rule in Africa would endure for 1,000 years, died Tuesday in South Africa. He was 88. The ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

As a young child, Alexandra Fuller was warned not to creep into her parents’ bedroom at night on pain of death. “We might shoot you,” they told her. “By mistake,” they reassured her. “As it is,” ...

Independence in April 1980 brought more than legality to the people of Zimbabwe, but social justice; and parliamentarism where the voice of one is the voice of all. In colonial Rhodesia, the law was ...