The movie "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" is set in Zambia and deals in grief and dark family secrets. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to director Rungano Nyoni and actor Susan Chardy about the movie. Rungano ...

In stark contrast to the pastoral leadership shown by Pope Francis when it comes to the care of LGBTQ+ people, the archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia, in southern Africa, recently ramped up anti-LGBTQ+ ...

As rightly stated by writer Lisa Insansa, Zambia’s music scene has experienced multiple deaths and rebirths, reflective of turbulent social, economic, and political realities. However, the country’s ...

The guinea fowl is a ubiquitous, henlike bird native to Africa, where it’s known for traveling in flocks and raising a noisy alarm when predators are nearby. In Rungano Nyoni’s scalding Cannes ...

Zambian music royalty, Cleo Ice Queen, and King Illest, hosted a black-tie dinner party at The Quorum’s 7 Senses Restaurant in Lusaka, on Friday, bringing together movers and shakers from Zambia’s ...

Geometric patterns on cloth. Symbols etched into sacred masks. Experts believe it’s all part of an ancient, largely forgotten writing system that was used by women in Zambia. Recently, the curators at ...

Rungano Nyoni was grieving. Her grandmother had died, and her great uncle had issued an edict that the funeral not feature the wailing and singing and house visits of typical Zambian mourning. Instead ...