Set entirely during a multi-day funeral, Rungano Nyoni's sophomore effort is a rigorous work of African feminism.

Much of “Guinea Fowl” centers on Fred’s funeral ... Shula briefly flees, but relatives force her back home, which the female mourners effectively transform into a de facto stage.

Our exhaustive search of American place names discovered that one country has been a shockingly dominant source of ...

Paddlers face brutal portages, including Guinea Fowl Portage (4 km through thick bush), Ngumeni ... Isaac, a final-year Sport Science student and one of the club’s top female paddlers, completed the ...

The second feature of writer-director Rungano Nyoni ("I Am Not a Witch") shows her developing strongly with a story graced by ...

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 ...

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.

Rungano Nyoni’s second film takes place at a family funeral in Zambia, where open secrets bubble to the surface.

Filmmaker Rungano Nyoni's spellbinding melodrama On Becoming a Guinea Fowl begins with a woman named Shula (Susan Chardy) happening upon the dead body of her Uncle Fred on the side of an empty ...

Shula is driving home from a fancy dress party one night when she encounters an unusual sight in the middle of a country road ...