Detractors argue that life under colonial rule in Rhodesia was “better,” claiming that Zimbabwe has regressed since independence. These assertions, often voiced by individuals nostalgic for an ...

Topics covered include Victorian racism; the ‘Scramble for Africa; white settler culture; the origins of apartheid South Africa; the development of the colonial state; indirect rule; the rise of ...

white settler culture and the colonial state; the origins of apartheid South Africa; indirect rule and Chiefs;; the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya; the Congo crisis and the assassination of Patrice Lumumba ...

Previously known as Rhodesia in colonial times, Zimbabwe adopted the new name in 1980 after the white minority government was ousted from power ...