Word: rhodesia
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...President Robert Mugabe's first actions after taking office 20 years ago was to change the name of his country's iconic national monument to "Great Zimbabwe." The anthropological site that proves the existence of a sophisticated urban culture centuries before British settlers arrived and proclaimed the country "Rhodesia" had previously been known as "the Zimbabwe Ruins." But two decades after independence, Mugabe stands widely accused of turning his country into a validation of the monument's former name. The Zimbabwean leader lashed out at the African nation's former ruler, Britain, on Monday during a Cairo summit between...
...colonial law used to suppress black nationalists in colonial Rhodesia," McElroy said...
DIED. JOSHUA NKOMO, 82, Father of Zimbabwe; from prostate cancer; in Harare. Nkomo spent years fighting Britain and later White Rhodesia for independence. Despite Nkomo's leadership, his erstwhile ally Robert Mugabe became Prime Minister in 1980. A subsequent split led to bloody clashes that ended with a 1987 peace accord and Nkomo's appointment to a powerless vice-presidential post...
...change worked. Paul's family moved to Rhodesia, where he regained his health. Later he attended medical school in Ireland, and, motivated by his childhood illness, became a pulmonologist and a leading asthma expert. "I wish I could speak to that Dublin physician now. He had great insight," says O'Byrne, who has learned that his early asthma attacks were allergic reactions to dust mites, which thrive in damp conditions...
Zimbabwe, formerly known by the colonial name Rhodesia, has successfully erased apartheid-like laws. "There are hundreds of thousands of Africans who left Zimbabwe when it was called Rhodesia, to go to Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the States," Maraire says. "These people want to come back to Zimbabwe." She knows that it will be difficult to readjust to her return, but she maintains that each person who returns gives another person an incentive to return. She declares, "The adjustments are worth...