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 ...
The guinea fowl is a ubiquitous, henlike bird native to Africa, where it’s known for traveling in flocks and raising a noisy ...
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” makes a valid argument for speaking ill of the dead, especially if it bucks this respectful ...
The A24 flick strands audiences between realistic and speculative storytelling as a family copes with a complicated death.
The Community of Bweengwa in southern Zambia has been celebrating the appointment of the Commonwealth Secretary-General as ...
Shula serves as our guide, her internal struggle—brilliantly captured by Chardy’s anguished calm—anchoring On Becoming a ...
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The Zambian-born director has, with only two features, stunned film festivals and emerged as a major African voice, one ...
Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a surreal and emotional journey through one family’s pent-up trauma.
Set entirely during a multi-day funeral, Rungano Nyoni's sophomore effort is a rigorous work of African feminism.
The second feature of writer-director Rungano Nyoni ("I Am Not a Witch") shows her developing strongly with a story graced by ...
RogerEbert.com spoke to writer-director Rungano Nyoni and star Susan Chardy over Zoom about the magnificence of the guinea ...
A young woman is forced to mourn the uncle who molested her in Rungano Nyoni’s lucid and incandescently pissed off follow-up ...
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