The mid-1970s in Africa were a period of immense political tension and armed conflict, particularly in the small, landlocked nation of Rhodesia. Located northeast of South Africa, Rhodesia became the ...

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 ...

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 at age 79. In a life dedicated to social ...

THE Central African Federation, officially known as the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, is an eight-year-old experiment in racial partnership aimed at coordinating the interests of both black ...

SOUTHERN RHODESIA A Winter’s Tale “When it rains in winter a king dies,” goes an old African saying. Last week, in the dead of Southern Rhodesia’s cool, dry winter, the skies opened suddenly, and hail ...

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 ...

A nationalist leader and Zimbabwe’s first black United Methodist Church pastor, Muzorewa was a leading figure in the country’s struggle for majority rule, serving as the head of the United African ...

Not since the Matabele and Mashona uprisings against Cecil Rhodes’ white settlers in the 1890s had Rhodesian whites felt so threatened. For years, the very notion of black terrorism seemed ...

On September 20, 1966, David Ramin, then Israel’s representative at the UN, presented his country’s official position on Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, to the General Assembly. Israel, Ramin said, condemned ...