"When the guinea fowl see a predator approaching, they make a noise altogether and they say 'Look out,'" shares a voiceover in one of the final moments of Rungano Nyoni's On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. The distinctive bird is a key metaphor throughout the director's follow-up to her much-lauded and utterly brilliant I Am Not A Witch, and acts as a powerful medium to view this dark family drama.
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