Jestina Mukoko

Activist Type
Human Rights

Jestina Mukoko is a human rights activist and the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, a group responsible for human rights monitoring and documenting human rights abuses by the Zimbabwe government who at one point had Jestina abducted by secret police. She was honored by Michelle Obama at the U.S. State Department's International Women of Courage Awards in 2014.

Artwork by
Johnny Selman

Jestina Mukoko's portrait is inspired by the long history and early mastery of stone sculpture in Zimbabwe. Shona sculpture, as it's commonly called, is named after a large tribe of artisans. Zimbabwe is derived from the Shona word dzimba-dza-mabwe, meaning house of stone. Flowing, organic lines and cubist planes are definitive of the Shona style.

Zimbabwe

Capital
Harare
Founded
April 18, 1980
Demonym
Zimbabwean
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