Flavour N’abania released ‘Ashawo’ in 2008. The international acceptance of the song could not have been foretold, perchance by a clairvoyant. Ashawo is associated with Afrobeat’s global recognition, corroborated by Billboard’s Top 3 greatest Afrobeat songs of all-time, a feat that further highlights the illustrious career of a singer, performer, and charismatic multi-instrumentalist who has shown talent, professionalism, and longevity throughout his career. 

  Flavour is one of, if not the first Afrobeat artist from the Eastern part of Nigeria to break into the mainstream industry. Melodiously fuses his Igbo dialect in vocal dexterity with rhythmic, satisfying performances of quality music. 

  Ashawo ushered in an era of successes, awards, recognition, and iconic moments in fairytales and daydreams.

     The term Ashawo is a Nigerian slur for whores and sex workers. A derogatory term for prostitutes, and also a weapon, a cane of subjugation to women who defy orders, norms, stand against oppression and support for egalitarian society. 

  Flavour expressed his dissatisfaction with his lover, a serial cheat who had given him pain and emotional turmoil, but his pain only gave people joy expressed in dances, encores and karaoke. A song that became a tool regardless of the argument, be it for shame, mockery, chastisement or against oppression, subjugation and defiance.