In 'I Am Not a Witch' director Rungano Nyoni's second feature, produced by A24, the death of a problematic uncle instigates domestic turmoil. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic The body lays prone ...

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 ...

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 ...

The black dramedy, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a candid cinematic work that carefully probes important topics of sexual abuse and generational trauma. The film follows a middle-class family living ...

The guinea fowl is a ubiquitous, henlike bird native to Africa, where it’s known for traveling in flocks and raising a noisy alarm when predators are nearby. In Rungano Nyoni’s scalding Cannes ...