Category : International

Ndabaningi Sithole, (born July 31, 1920, Nyamandhlovu, Matabeleland, Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]—died December 12, 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.), teacher, clergyman, and an intellectual leader of the...

Commonwealth, also called Commonwealth of Nations, formerly (1931–49) British Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and a number...

Ian Smith, in full Ian Douglas Smith, (born April 8, 1919, Selukwe, Rhodesia “now Shurugwi, Zimbabwe”—died Nov. 20, 2007, Cape Town, S.Af.), first native-born prime...

Mashonaland, a traditional region in northeastern Zimbabwe, bordering Zambia to the north and Mozambique to the northeast and east. It is the traditional homeland of...

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also called Central African Federation, political unit created in 1953 and ended on Dec. 31, 1963, that embraced the British...

British South Africa Company (BSAC, BSACO, or BSA Company), a mercantile company based in London that was incorporated in October 1889 under a royal charter...

Rhodesia, region, south-central Africa, now divided into Zimbabwe in the south and Zambia in the north. Named after British colonial administrator Cecil Rhodes, it was...

The English businessman and financier Cecil Rhodes founded the modern diamond industry and controlled the British South Africa Company, which acquired Rhodesia and Zambia as...

Filipe Jacinto Nyusi was born in 1959 in the northern town of Mueda, Cabo Delgado Province, the heartland of a stirring national liberation movement that...

Joaquim Alberto Chissano (born 1939), one of the leaders of the war of liberation against Portugal, became his nation’s first foreign minister when Mozambique won...