One vulnerable region was Northern Rhodesia, which is due to get its independence by year’s end. But all was quiet last week as thousands of African voters flocked to the polling booths to elect ...

For many decades, Africans were under colonial rule that gave them little or no chance to express their desires. Despite the numerous obstacles, some youngsters (who eventually became renowned African ...

On November 11, 1965, having just imposed a state of emergency, he declared Rhodesia's unilateral independence from Britain, becoming the first British colony to rebel against the Crown since ...

By Andrew Kenny* This is misleading, of course, since the intention of the Act is not “restitution” or “addressing the legacy ...

There is something about Nigeria that has continued to make it very difficult for this vastly endowed country to attain true ...

To help celebrate white-led Rhodesia’s transition to free Zimbabwe ... “What makes Bob Marley extremely special is that he came for the Independence of Zimbabwe as the esteemed and expected ...

But Mugabe, Zimbabwe's sole ruler since the former Rhodesia gained independence in 1980, says his land seizures are meant to correct the wrongs of British colonialism which left 70 percent of the ...

In a scrubby paddock on the edge of Bulawayo, I walked up to a half-broken leatherwood tree growing in a tangle of old barbed ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the defining geopolitical issue of our time.