In celebration of Women’s History Month, join us on Wednesday, March 25 at 7 PM at The Africa Center for a special screening of On Becoming a Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni. The film will be followed by a virtual pre-recorded Q&A with the director!

About the Film

On an empty road in the middle of the night,Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.

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