How #ThisFlag Pastor Evan Mawarire Used Facebook to Shut Down Zimbabwe

Evan Mawarire. Image via REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/RNS

Leaning over his desk in Harare, the Zimbabwe flag’s green, red, yellow, and black stripes draped around his neck, Pastor 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,” he told fellow Zimbabweans in the April 20 video.

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