Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s second feature starts with a dead body in the road. It ends with rage, righteousness, and a ...

RogerEbert.com spoke to writer-director Rungano Nyoni and star Susan Chardy over Zoom about the magnificence of the guinea ...

"On Becoming a Guinea Fowl," Rungano Nyoni's new film, explores grief, secrets and trauma among a Zambian family. Susan ...

Wherever it takes place, whoever’s life has ended, a funeral is a kind of collective memory bank. No two memories of the deceased, spoken or unspoken, work the same way. But a person’s life, and its ...

Native to sub-Saharan Africa, the guinea fowl is a communal bird that doubles as a guard animal. Whenever a predator is nearby, guinea fowl begin to chirp in cooperation with other guinea fowl to ...

“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” makes a valid argument for speaking ill of the dead, especially if it bucks this respectful tradition by revealing the harm they caused while living. In this ...

When we first meet Shula (Susan Chardy), the quietly unbending protagonist of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” she is driving home from a fancy-dress party, wearing dark shades, a gleaming metal ...

It’s not until we nearly reach the end of On Becoming a Guinea Fowl that we learn a certain characteristic regarding this native, chicken-like creature. It warns the flock about danger.