'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl' Review: A Smart and Unsettling Zambian Drama Depicts a Family's Reckoning

The body lays prone in the middle of the road, an undisturbed mass straddling two lanes. Was the person simply a drunk compelled to admire the stars as the world spun? Or did they have an accident? Shula (a haunting Susan Chardy), the protagonist of Rungano Nyoni’s startling feature On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, didn’t plan to stop, but a pang of recognition beckons her as she drives down a dimly lit road somewhere in Zambia’s capital city of Lusaka. …