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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

“AND how did you like it in Rho-desia?” people asked me when, in 1963, my husband and I returned from living there for three years. Usually they were just being polite and had almost no interest in ...

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 ...

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 failure of the independence negotiations between Britain and Rhodesia in London last week and reports coming out of that Central African country make it apparent that a unilateral declaration of ...

Starting Thursday, as the world recoiled that nine worshippers were murdered at a historically black church in South Carolina, the news cycle and Internet at large began to talk about a country that ...