What follows--in a land where black Africans outnumber whites 18 to one--could be disastrous, not only for Rhodesia, but for all of Africa and the West. Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith has been ...

which Britain’s oil embargo had at last forced on his white minority government. With crude oil running out at the Mozambique port of Beira (source for Rhodesia’s major pipeline), Smith ...

Nyasaland, with its over 99 per cent black population, feared domination by the strong white settler population of Southern Rhodesia; but it was hoped that the Federation would help both areas ...

Colonial Rhodesia was a state founded on racial segregation and economic disenfranchisement of the black majority. Land ownership was starkly inequitable; white settlers, who constituted a small ...