The Zambian Sensibility of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” by Namwali Serpell

"Most people who see the Zambian British director Rungano Nyoni’s extraordinary new film, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” will not be Zambian. Like Nyoni’s first feature, “I Am Not a Witch” (2017), it has played in film festivals, competed at award shows, and appeared in cinemas in several European countries, and now the United States. It may eventually show up on the back-of-the-seat screens of airplanes on international flights among those nations. It will find its place in the upper ranks of that oddly redundant category “world cinema.” (Where else would cinema be made?)" 

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