Black African leaders used to call Sir Roy Welensky a white elephant and cheered when the Central African Federation, of which he was Prime Minister, broke up last New Year’s Eve. Now some wish the ...

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 yesterday. He was 88. Smith, who ...

Many a Rhodesian went to the polls last week to the tune of a grim little ditty called “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow U.D.I.” U.D.I. stands for “Unilateral Declaration of Independence,” a ...

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks to Alexandra Fuller, author of, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, her memoir about growing up white in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, ...

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

John Menadue stayed on as the most senior public servant in the land, after the trauma of the Dismissal. In this five-part ...

Cheryl, who listens to Bay Area member station KQED, recommends this memoir of growing up white in 1970s Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller was an amazing ...