“As a democracy activist and pastor from Zimbabwe, I survived imprisonment and torture for inspiring a citizen’s movement that challenged and eventually helped remove the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe.
On this podcast I host brave freedom advocates from across the world who tell their stories of resilience as they fought for democracy.“
-Evan Mawarire
Each week, political dissidents from around the world sit down with Zimbabwean democracy activist Evan Mawarire to share stories about their struggles on the frontlines of freedom.
Growing up in the middle of a bloody civil war was Nicholas Opiyo’s childhood. He remembers skipping over dead bodies on his way to school and his father being hunted by angry political mobs. Opiyo’s inspirational story of becoming a firebrand human rights and democracy lawyer is marked with shocking moments of courage and despair in equal measures. Through it all however, he learns to turn pain into purpose as he takes on injustice and the brute force of a dictatorship that has had enough of him.
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