Majid Shabbeer, Author at Indigenous Africa

Haratines vs Systemic Slavery and Discrimination

Fighting against longstanding structures of discrimination and slavery, Mauritania’s Haratines strive for civil liberties and equal rights.

State-based Discrimination Against Tebu and Amazigh Libyans

Even in a post-Ghaddafi world, Libya’s non-Arab ethnic minorities face language, citizenship, and cultural discrimination supported by law.

Wagner Abuses Against Fulani and Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg) Communities

With the reignition of conflict in the wake of Wagner-Junta aggression, Mali’s Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg) and Fulani communities are under attack.

Eritrean Afar in Dankalia

Facing government-sanctioned ethnic violence, mass sexual abuse, and the seizure of property, the Eritrean Afar are an indigenous people trapped by a repressive government. Combined with a blockade of their homeland, the Afar condition only worsens.

Sahrawi vs Land Grabbing in the Western Sahara

For decades, the Sahrawi people of the Western Sahara have fought occupation, and today face a new reality of eviction and cultural erasure.

Sahrawi vs Resource Extraction in the Western Sahara

As the Moroccan government illegally extracts mineral and agricultural wealth from occupied Sahrawi lands, indigenous communities suffer.

The University of Michigan has its origins in land coercively purchased by the United States Federal Government from the Anishinaabeg (including Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi) and Wyandot nations. While this project documents ongoing cases of land expropriation and dispossession outside of the United States, we are also based in a university that stands, like almost all property in the United States, on lands obtained from indigenous peoples, generally through violence, intimidation, and dishonesty. Knowing and acknowledging where we live and work does not change this, but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of these histories must shape our research, teaching, and outreach to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals.

Author: Majid Shabbeer