Radio Derb On Rhodesia  This weekend's Radio Derb is on the air,
available as a podcast on iTunes, playable onscreen at Taki's
Magazine, or readable in transcript form here.  One segment is
built around some news items from Zimbabwe. From which:  The
subject here is Zimbabwe, which when I was growing up in England
was one part of the grandly-named Federation of Rhodesia and
Nyasaland, a British colony with a degree of self-government.
The Prime Minister of the thing was a genial fellow named Roy
Welensky.  Well, the Federation fell apart in the early 1960s.
Nyasaland became Malawi, Northern Rhodesia became Zambia, and
Welensky retired to Southern Rhodesia.  Like most of these white
British or South African colonial politicians in southern
Africa, Welensky liked the local blacks and was sympathetic to
their aspirations, but didn't think they were capable of
governing themselves. In fact Welensky was famous for saying the
following thing: "If you don't like black people, don't come and
live in Africa."  Ian Smi