When Britain imposed economic sanctions on the rebellious Southern Rhodesian government four months ago, it seemed unrealistic to argue over the terms of any future settlement. The Conservatives ...

The writer comments on her memory of the racial situation in Rhodesia when she lived in Salisbury when her husband was a Cultural Affairs Officer for the U.S. Information Service (1960-63). Salisbury ...

The stakes were rising in Ian Smith’s daring game against the British. Rhodesians jammed the downtown streets of Salisbury and Bulawayo in a carefree holiday shopping spree, while shopkeepers ...

When able, ambitious Iain Macleod asked Harold Macmillan for a crack at running the Colonial Office after the 1959 elections, he knew he was taking on a post that could break or make a politician.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Sister Janice McLaughlin, a Maryknoll Sisters nun who was jailed and later deported by white minority-ruled Rhodesia for exposing human rights abuses, has died. She was 79. In a ...

Donal Lamont, 92, a Roman Catholic bishop expelled from white-ruled Rhodesia in 1977 for opposing its racial policies, died Aug. 14 in Dublin, Ireland, of causes associated with aging. Ordained a ...

I was born in India in the 1950s but grew up in Rhodesia, Southern Africa, under the laws of segregation. The white minority government declared independence from Britain in 1965 and made it unlawful ...

It didn’t take a whole lot for us to figure out the 21-year-old white man who gunned down three Black people in Jacksonville had racist motives. His gun was covered in swatstikas and racial slurs.

The International Journal of African Historical Studies (formerly: African Historical Studies) is devoted to the study of the African past. Articles in English on all aspects of Africa's history are ...