The Bamyan province lies at the centre of Hazarajat, one of many territories of which Afghanistan is made up. One of the larger minoritised peoples of Afghanistan, the Hazara —a Farsi-speaking, Shi’a group—, live there. A couple of years ago, Nationalia released —find it here in Catalan— an interview with Carme Roure, in which the state of discrimination and violence faced by the Hazara was analysed. Today, we are having a look onto a rather kinder face of that territory through this Global Voices story. Keep reading

The crisis in Southern Cameroons, which has resulted in a violent confrontation between armed pro-independence groups and the Cameroonian forces over the last 9 months, is not giving any sign of moving towards a solution —rather the contrary is true. Since the date of the symbolic declaration of Southern Cameroonian independence of 1 October, at least hundreds have been killed in a conflict that has been dragging on since the 1960s and has a lot to see with the centralization of power at the hands of the Cameroonian state. Keep reading

This is a story about a North American Native people, the Miami, which (almost) lost its language. Which, out of individual and collective efforts, is trying to revive it through an incipient work in which, for the first time in decades, some children are being raised in Myaamia and some adult Miami are learning essential notions of the language. It is as well a story of racism and inequality, oppression and dispossession, but also of struggle and solidarity to break down barriers at university. We are republishing this article by Mary Annette Pember on Yes! Magazine. Keep reading