A small white minority seized control of Rhodesia. Tacit support and weak condemnations extended the harmful regime.

The Rhodesian Bush War reveals an uncomfortable truth about Western democracy, that lofty language about majority rule and human rights often collides with cold geopolitical calculations, leaving ...

On 11 November 1965, Ian Smith, prime minister of the British colony of Rhodesia, signed his country’s unilateral declaration of independence, giving birth to a new nation that would, rather ...

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 ...