Culture

As ASA Magazine were honoured to be invited to the Italian National Day celebration, held at the Italian government-owned mansion in Bishopscourt, Cape Town. Rain may have fallen this past Sunday, but it merely provided a backdrop to the vibrant conviviality within the mansion's walls, lit up by Italian...

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu won the 2019 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize for her acclaimed debut novel The Theory of Flight (buy the book here) and was recently shortlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards for her second novel, The History of Man, which reinvents the colonial narrative by...

Average read time: 5 minutes. Delving into the greater meaning of his activism, music, and revolutionary art, the exhibit educates and enlightens attendees through a labyrinth of emotions, as they take this journey through his extraordinary life. A testimony to his mother  Years before her death in 2016, Shakur’s mother, political activist...

ASA is the culmination of the vision of one man. And that man is Rey, entrepreneur extraordinaire. Hailing from Edo State, Nigeria, Rey, an enigma to be honest, is reticent to reveal too much inside info about himself, but rather wants to talk about ASA. “ASA (which means “culture” in...

Since its launch last year, Mermaid Fillet by Mia Arderne has frequented bestseller lists in bookstores around the country. The neo-noir novel is set in the northern suburbs of Cape Town and tells the story of a group of gangsters, a wife protecting her husband and their riches, the...

When the lights go up on the Kalk Bay Theatre Stage, it’s both a trip back in time and a rebirth. Their latest show, Noir, is a sexy throwback to the Vaudeville performances of the 1940’s. Irreverent, cheeky, lush and deliciously dark, it’s precisely the type of escapist fantasy...

Sue Nyathi’s most recent novel A Family Affair was released in October 2020 and is already in its second print run, which in South Africa is really phenomenal.  Sue describes herself as a writer by passion and an investment analyst by profession. Since her successful debut novel The Polygamist,...

Considering lockdown, the economic fallout, the levels of stress, anxiety, collective trauma and uncertainty about the Pandemic, and exacerbation of all existing issues, health and otherwise, the fallout has been significant. Depression has increased dramatically, and the latest studies show that over one-third of all South Africans have mental...

Average read time: 5 minutes. Must read  If you want to see what all the fuss is about, then you must get a copy, or download it on your kindle of South African author, Damon Galgut’s The Promise. His most directly political story yet, it took home the prestigious Booker Prize...

Average reading time: 6 minutes. ASA embodies self-expression, design, and art. Recognising creatives as the pivotal essence of 21st-century culture. The Art Of Collaboration extended their hands and collaborated further with Bubbles and Bliss to raise funds for the Stellcare project. It was an honour to be invited. Bubbles & Bliss...