The recent deadly shooting in a historic African American church in the U.S. state of South Carolina, this week, that left nine people dead, has brought Zimbabwe and South Africa into the spotlight.

Flowers for the victims of Wednesday's shootings are laid near a police barricade in Charleston, South Carolina, June 18, 2015. Reuters The 21-year-old suspect who allegedly opened fire in a historic ...

Symbols matter. If they didn’t, we wouldn’t be in the midst of such acrimonious debate about the Confederate flag, 150 years after the end of the Civil War. Most of its defenders assert — ...

Dylann Storm Roof, the 21-year-old man suspected of killing nine people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday, wore a jacket with the flags of apartheid South Africa and ...

The flags stitched onto Dylann Roof’s coat in his Facebook photo are remnants of racist institutions in Zimbabwe and South Africa and speak to the reported motivation behind his decision to murder ...

Not since the Matabele and Mashona uprisings against Cecil Rhodes’ white settlers in the 1890s had Rhodesian whites felt so threatened. For years, the very notion of black terrorism seemed ...

Britain’s Harold Wilson once called breakaway Rhodesia “my Viet Nam”—and with good reason. Since Rhodesia declared its independence in 1965, Wilson’s war of economic sanctions has cost Britain an ...

4 film reels : si., col. ; 16 mm. ; 1 hr., 8 min., 32 sec. M. Hildreth (Marie Hildreth) Meiere. Africa: South Africa, Rhodesia, Belgian Congo, 1953. Hildreth Meière ...