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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

2024

When a young woman discovers her uncle's body on a deserted road at night, the funeral that follows forces her and her cousins to confront the abuse and complicity long buried within their outwardly respectable Zambian family. Rungano Nyoni's striking, darkly comic drama.

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