To protect Rhodesia against an imagined invasion, convoys of troops were ordered to dig in along the Zambesi River border with Zambia, causing President Kenneth Kaunda nervously to declare a state ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Ian Smith, the last white minority leader of Rhodesia, who vowed that blacks would not rule his country "in a thousand years," died Tuesday in a clinic outside Cape ...

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.

The world of 35 years ago was a dramatically different place, and nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa. In the early 1970s, Portugal still clung to its colonies in Angola and Mozambique, South ...