The film explores the life of the Mopy family living on the isolated island of Chishi in Zambia. It highlights their ...

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.

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

Nyoni, the Lusaka-born, Wales-raised Zambian director told IndieWire, "The whole film is an expression of myself," channeled ...

The Zambian-born director has, with only two features, stunned film festivals and emerged as a major African voice, one ...

Shula serves as our guide, her internal struggle—brilliantly captured by Chardy’s anguished calm—anchoring On Becoming a ...

A young woman is forced to mourn the uncle who molested her in Rungano Nyoni’s lucid and incandescently pissed off follow-up ...

After alerting the police and her family to the mysterious death, Shula is roped into the local mourning traditions ... like I am really laughing at Zambian culture,” she says.

The Carol Shields 2025 Prize Longlist is here! Fifteen women and nonbinary authors are honored for their works in fiction.

In a game-changing move for wildlife conservation, Panthera—the global wild cat preservation powerhouse—has joined forces ...

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