Federation of
             Rhodesia and Nyasaland. A few years after this, an organisation of African nationalists was formed, known as the SRANC, but was banned in 1959 along with a proceeding group known as the NDP.
             When Ian Smith of the rightist Rhodesian Front became Rhodesia's president in 1964, he immediately began rallying for independence from Britain. Although he had no support from any foreign country or the whites in Zimbabwe, he created the Unilateral Declaration of Independence. This was ignored by mostly by the UN, declared illegal by the British, and Rhodesia was not recognised as an independent country by any other nation. As a result, African political parties pushed fierce guerrilla warfare attacks on his people, and many white farmers abandoned their homes. Smith tried various
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