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Prof. Pat Utomi has waged a relentless and sustained intellectual assault on poverty, bad governance and their attendant ills: deprivation, destitution and disintingration of social values and cohesion. His campaign has helped shape the policy imperatives of the economic template of successive regimes and unleashed variegated dynamics of socio-economic and political currents that have influenced the direction and character of Nigeria. His impact on the nation, the continent and the world has been colossal, cavernous and comprehensive. It is in honour of this humble and personable living legend that these scholars decided to condence their thoughts in this intellectual pot pouri of incisive, philosophical, sociological, socio-legal and scientific discourses of core interest in a nation and continent grappling with the challenges of nationhood and free itself from vice-grip of neo-colonialism. Africa, (nay Nigeria) hold great potential for political greatness and attainment of socio-economic advancement. This can only happen with the right kind of leadership which Africa is yet to be blessed with – But it looks to the future with hope.