Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Britain's rebellious colony of Rhodesia, who once promised that white rule in Africa would endure for 1,000 years, died Tuesday in South Africa. He was 88. The ...

As a young child, Alexandra Fuller was warned not to creep into her parents’ bedroom at night on pain of death. “We might shoot you,” they told her. “By mistake,” they reassured her. “As it is,” ...

“Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland,” by Graham Boynton. Random House. 289 pages. $24. The whimsical title belies the dread that courses through this chronicle of the transfer of power in Africa during the ...

The Nyasaland Emergency in 1959 proved a decisive turning point in the history of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which from 1953 to 1963 brought together the territories of Northern ...

Blood and words: writing history with (and about) vampire stories -- Historicizing rumor and gossip -- "Bandages on your mouth": the experience of colonial medicine in East and Central Africa -- "Why ...

Founded in Boston in 1815, the North American Review is the oldest literary magazine in the US. Published at the University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls) since 1968, on six occasions during that ...