  The color excitations of interacting fermions carrying an $SU(3)$ color and
$U(N_f)$ flavor index in one spatial dimension are studied in the framework of
a perturbed $SU(3)_{N_f}$ Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model. Using Bethe ansatz
methods the low energy quasi-particles are found to be massive solitons forming
$SU(3)$ quark and antiquark multiplets. In addition to the color index the
solitons carry an internal degree of freedom with non-integer quantum
dimension. These zero modes are identified as non-Abelian anyons satisfying
$SU(3)_{N_f}$ fusion rules. Controlling the soliton density by external fields
allows to drive the condensation of these anyons into various collective
states. The latter are described by parafermionic cosets related to the
symmetry of the system. Based on the numerical solution of the thermodynamic
Bethe ansatz equations we propose a low temperature phase diagram for this
model.
