Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (1917-1999) was a leader in the African nationalist movement in southern Rhodesia during the post-World War II period. President of the Zimbabwe African People's Union, he was active in the first independent African government in...

Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, died Tuesday at age 88.Smith, who recently suffered a stroke, died at a clinic near Cape Town, South Africa, where...