“Now Rhodesia’s name has been changed to “Zimbabwe” and it’s become just another starving third-world toilet. I wonder what happened?”
They lost their books and don’t have any more seeds.
Now sub-Saharan Africa is reverting to what it would have been without Western medicine & interaction. Soon all of the people will be gone, and it will be a giant preserve.
Well, don’t forget that Zambia and Zimbabwe were Rhodesia, namely after the opportunist Rhodes who carved out his personal empire there in the 1800s. It was time to change the name. But the collapse did not happen due to the name change but due to populist, in fact communistic policies