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In Zambia, or at least in Bemba culture, you don’t speak ill of the dead — in part because of fear they might hear you. A little spooky perhaps, but mostly a loving belief that these people haven’t truly left us. …Early on in On Becoming A Guinea Fowl, Shula (Susan Chardy) is haunted by the memory of her late Uncle Fred (Roy Chisha) — because of her uncle’s abuses of her and other girls in her family, and the family’s refusal to acknowledge his wrongdoing.-EMPIRE

““On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a magically transcendent, cunningly funny, and arresting piece of cultural commentary that puts the inequalities of tradition against the warmth community can, still, on occasions, provide”-RogerEbert.com