Economic boycotts are by now a familiar, if not quite believable, story to Rhodesia’s rebellious whites. The Brit ish declared one against them in 1965 without much noticeable effect, and the United ...

Although Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence marks a turning point in the history of southern Africa, it is too soon to tell which way southern Africa has turned. Did UDI consolidate ...

The British anti-apartheid movement's focus on Rhodesia after 1965 widened the movement to include other anti-colonial struggles in the region and ...

The failure of the independence negotiations between Britain and Rhodesia in London last week and reports coming out of that Central African country make it apparent that a unilateral declaration of ...

Britain’s Harold Wilson once called breakaway Rhodesia “my Viet Nam”—and with good reason. Since Rhodesia declared its independence in 1965, Wilson’s war of economic sanctions has cost Britain an ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, died on Tuesday at age 88 ...

Harare, Zimbabwe | Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, died Tuesday at age 88.

Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, has died at age 88. Smith, who recently ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, died Tuesday at age 88.