Possible Clues:

• Greek island -- one with a colony in Africa at one time
• Greek character modified ideas for historic country
• Name of old Commonwealth country, so I heard, changed
• Former British colony in central Africa
• Greek character elated first off back in old country
• Island after island, a country of old
• Where Salisbury was restyled, so I heard
• Greek island -- one suppressing a country no longer
• A Greek character with bad ideas produced Crosaire there for years
• Former name for today's Zambia and Zimbabwe combined