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 ...

People protest outside Lancaster House, London, where they await the arrivals of the delegates to the Rhodesia Conference on Sept. 11, 1979. “A small white minority seizes control of the state ...

The recent deaths of some forty black Africans in civil disturbances in Nyasaland contrasts sharply with the image of a harmonious multi-racial state which Britain had in view when she formed the ...

In the chamber of the U.N. Security Council last week, there was an unsettling sense of history repeated. The gallery was crowded, and delegates representing most of the world’s nations stood in knots ...