I used to believe that the right to narrate the war belonged solely to those who fought it and suffered most from it. But I've realised that a country, like a war, is a common struggle.

Growing up in the United States gave me safety, but it also brought guilt, heartache and a sense of disconnection.

In the center of Prilep there is a bust that few people notice. The bust is of Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof, unknown to many in our country, otherwise known as the founder of Esperanto. On the pedestal there is a very important message of the Esperanto movement, written in Esperanto: "The world is one country, humanity...

Between emancipation and propaganda, and under conditions of survival.

Positioning Kosovo within this colonial paradigm suggests that its struggle is not merely one for the recognition of its statehood, but for the acknowledgment of its colonial past.