The guinea fowl is a ubiquitous, henlike bird native to Africa, where it’s known for traveling in flocks and raising a noisy ...

Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is not only a stunning piece of art, but a stirring, scathing call to break the ...

Few things are as dangerous as familial cultures of silence around the perpetuation of abuse. Of course, it's common for ...

In Rungano Nyoni’s drama, a death in a middle-class Zambian family unearths a history of sexual violence.

“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” shares some spiritual DNA with “Women ... while also taking audiences into an culture that's ...

This is cinema as protest, sending its rage at misogyny, late-stage capitalism, colonization, and so many more ...

The movie "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" is set in Zambia and deals in grief and dark family secrets. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to director Rungano Nyoni and actor Susan Chardy about the movie.

You should watch the surreal new movie On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. It opens with a Zambian woman finding her uncle's body on the road. His death brings the family together from near and far, but also ...

You have Bemba culture, which is my tribe ... RASCOE: The name of the film, "On Becoming A Guinea Fowl" - and in the movie, we learn that guinea fowl - they're supposed to alert the rest of ...

The movie "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" is set in Zambia and deals in grief and dark family secrets. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to director Rungano Nyoni and actor Susan Chardy about the movie.