Word: rhodesia
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...publishing the first volume of her autobiography. Already she is skeptical. "Were I to write it aged 85, how different would it be?" That's Lessing -- always doubting, exacting, comparing. Under My Skin (HarperCollins; 419 pages; $25) is not so much a recollection of her early life in Southern Rhodesia as a dissection of it. Remote styles of life -- in a colonial outpost at the end of the British regime in Africa, with its hopeless yearnings and longings, and in communist circles of the 1930s, with their blithe and heartless dreams of a brave new world -- come under a moral...
...father a World War I amputee who gained more his wife's pity than her love. Doris was called Tigger after the Winnie-the-Pooh character -- the whole family had A.A. Milne nicknames -- because she was a "healthy bouncy beast." When she was five, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia, hearts set on the wealth to be had in farming and mining. But a crippled man could hardly tame the bush; living was rough and laborious...
...Belgians from the Congo set off savage ethnic-regional warfare; the collapse of the Soviet Union ignited a murderous rivalry between Abkhazians and Georgians for control of Georgia. Rwanda's preindependence history held special ironies: while colonial rule was far less strict in Rwanda than in South Africa or Rhodesia, the legacy of Belgian rule all but guaranteed the violence that has erupted...
...political power, handing over control of the country to the black majority it had held in servitude for 300 years. It was an event without historical precedent in the days of sweeping decolonization in Africa three decades ago, or even in 1980 when the former British colony of Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, because 5 million former rulers are not leaving...
Zambia, called Northern Rhodesia in its colonial incarnation, has begun to work hard in forming a social contract with its people. The country's story is a synopsis of some of the things that have gone wrong -- and something of an object lesson...