When able, ambitious Iain Macleod asked Harold Macmillan for a crack at running the Colonial Office after the 1959 elections, he knew he was taking on a post that could break or make a politician.

Welcome banners bedecked Lusaka’s postage-stamp airport, and 2,000 jubilant Africans pressed against its wire fence, their faces daubed festively with red ink, and frantically waving ceremonial palm ...

THE Meteorological Report for Northern Rhodesia for 1931-32 (No. 9) is the first of this series that has appeared since responsibility for the direction of meteorological work in that colony was taken ...

THE first report of the Advisory Committee on Industrial Deportment, Northern Rhodesia (Lusaka : Government Printer, 1946. Is.) recommends the renewal of a number of customs agreements as well as a ...