Zimbabwean Lives Matter is a Zimbabwean protest movement modeled after the American Black Lives Matter campaign. The protest movement is directed towards the Zimbabwean government of incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa who took over through a 2017 bloodless coup from Robert Mugabe.
Celebrities who have expressed support for the protest include former Botswana President Ian Khama,[1] Ice Cube, Lecrae and actresses Thandiwe Newton, Beyoncé Knowles[2] and Pearl Thusi.[3] Tsitsi Dangarembga, retired South African Rugby player of Zimbabwean origin Tendai Mtawarira and Thomas Mapfumo were some of the Zimbabweans who also expressed support.[4] The protest movement had more than 700,000 tweets as of August 2020.[5]
Like the Black Lives Matter protest movement, the Zimbabwean Lives Matter protest movement does not have a central organizer as most of the activists have been protesting through their microblogging Twitter accounts. A repository of Zimbabwean Lives Matter materials has been created.[6]