Zambia
Cultural Comment
The Zambian Sensibility of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”
Our art reflects a commitment to the pleasant, a subtlety and delay in how we communicate, and an easygoing acceptance of contradiction.
The Current Cinema
The Resounding Silences of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”
In Rungano Nyoni’s drama, a death in a middle-class Zambian family unearths a history of sexual violence.
Dispatch
A Top Leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Political Opposition Returns
After three years of exile, can Moïse Katumbi revive democracy in the D.R.C.?
Q. & A.
A Novelist and Critic on Fictionalizing Zambian History
Namwali Serpell discusses the origins of her novel, “The Old Drift,” whether she feels pressure to represent Zambia in a certain way, and what it’s like to teach controversial authors in 2019.
Culture Desk
The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race
At the height of the Cold War, a schoolteacher launched the Zambian Space Program with a dozen aspiring teen-age astronauts. Was he unfairly mocked?
Annals of Technology
One of Africa’s Biggest Dams Is Falling Apart
The Theatre
Telling It Like It Isn’t
A Reporter at Large
The Hunted
Taboos
Peacock
