Ian Smith’s government declared independence from Britain while maintaining white-minority rule in Rhodesia. African liberation movements opposed this attempt to preserve racial political authority. The declaration illustrates why a break with an imperial government is not necessarily decolonization when the majority remains excluded from governing power.
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Why is Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration different from majority-rule decolonization?
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A change in formal sovereignty can preserve racial domination when most people remain excluded from power.