Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Britain's rebellious colony of Rhodesia, who once promised that white rule in Africa would endure for 1,000 years, died Tuesday in South Africa. He was 88. The ...

As a young child, Alexandra Fuller was warned not to creep into her parents’ bedroom at night on pain of death. “We might shoot you,” they told her. “By mistake,” they reassured her. “As it is,” ...

Black Lives Matter activists have named Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris, the man who oversaw allied bombing raids on Nazi Germany, on a list of statues they want pulled down, for being a 'colonial ...

The Nyasaland Emergency in 1959 proved a decisive turning point in the history of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which from 1953 to 1963 brought together the territories of Northern ...

Making excellent use of neglected Zambian archives, Tembo surveys the impact of World War II on colonial Zambia, or Northern Rhodesia, as it was then called. Readers will find much to appreciate in ...

The period following the world slump saw increased British official interest in applying the new science of social anthropology to colonial problems. This paper looks at the eight years (1939-47) ...

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