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 ...

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

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Ian Smith, the last white minority leader of Rhodesia, who vowed that blacks would not rule his country “in a thousand years,” died Tuesday in a clinic outside Cape Town, ...

I have no doubt that the name Rhodesia and what it stood for remains offensive to most of us blacks. It hangs like a nightmare in our brains because of what it did, especially to our fore fathers and ...

Once upon a time there was a country known as Rhodesia. Rhodesia was an epitome of racial discrimination, the face of injustice. A minority reigned supreme over the majority. The minority held 90% 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 ...