Evan Mawarire leads national "stay-away" in Zimbabwe
Also protesting President Robert Mugabe, Archbishop of York John Sentamu hasn't worn a clerical collar in nine years.
Evan Mawarire. Photo courtesy of Reuters / Siphiwe Sibeko.
Leaning over his desk in Harare, the Zimbabwe flag’s green, red, yellow, and black stripes draped around his neck, Evan Mawarire looked into the camera and launched an uprising.
“This flag, every day that it flies, is begging for you to get involved, is begging for you to say something, is begging for you to cry out,” the Pentecostal pastor told fellow Zimbabweans in the April 20 video.
What started that day as a social media campaign of flag selfies and hashtags developed into a full-fledged movement with Mawarire as its charismatic leader.
