Seven years ago, Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni made international waves with “I Am Not a Witch,” a mysterious fable that mixed African rituals and folklore with modern-day troubles to tell the ...

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 ...

On the drive home from a party, Shula (Susan Chardy) sees her Uncle Fred dead on the road. Shula’s chaotic drunk cousin Nsansa (Elizabeth Chisela) stumbles onto the scene and calls the authorities.

"Why are they mourning Uncle Fred like he's some angel?" A24 has unveiled the official trailer for an indie film called On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, the second feature made by the acclaimed African ...

Rungano Nyoni Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images. After a seven-year absence, British-Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni has returned to feature filmmaking with her surreal and darkly ...

Native to sub-Saharan Africa, the guinea fowl is a communal bird that doubles as a guard animal. Whenever a predator is nearby, guinea fowl begin to chirp in cooperation with other guinea fowl to ...

The centerpiece for most Thanksgiving feasts was not served at the first Thanksgiving. It is not native to Turkey. It is not the African guinea fowl it was confused with. It is not the indigenous bird ...

When A24 came aboard to distribute Rungano Nyoni’s latest film, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” the director was a little wary. “A24 is such a brand — and brands always frighten me,” she says over Zoom ...

Much of the turkey's early history is shrouded in uncertainty, historians and etymologists say — which is particularly true of how the bird got its name.

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