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This paper reviewed the failure of state and society to influence illegal migrations through frustrations engendered by lopsided development and infrastructural decay coupled with irreconcilable endemic corruptions in Nigeria. It adopts the content analysis and evaluation of available resource such as text books, journals and newspapers, explorations of lacunas in older research in this environment and explorations of oral interviews to substantiate other available evidences. A failed state cannot provide assurance of a good future for its citizens and future generations in that society. African states grapple with endemic problems such as corruption, little or lack of infrastructural development, lopsided political and state structures, recessions, unemployment and gross human rights violations with pervading real and imagined civil wars, further evidenced as insurgencies. These situations particularly pervade the country Nigeria and illegal migrations provide opportunities for frustrated citizens to run in desperate search of the Golden Fleece. In the Edo traditional society of Nigeria, the peculiarity of notoriety in this context is further grounded in what I refer to as societal failure. Benin traditional patrilineal conception celebrated male dominance and total subjugation of women, a situation that does not give the woman the right to family sustenance and nobility title (chieftaincy). However, new environmental challenges have resulted in problematic cultural readjustments that make women to take up the role of bread winners. As such, this illegal migration frenzy is higher in the Edo society because of these enlisting factors, as mentioned above. As international and domestic media and organizations turn a negative light of attention on this historical colossus (Edo land) it becomes necessary for the author to seek scholarly answers and solutions to redefine the state/society citizenship relationship and postulate suggestions to avert the influx of migrant returnees from creating further challenges. The lacuna of this research is better evaluated in historical meanderings of Benin (Edo) gender relations within the context of Nigerian society's reevaluation for developmental improvement.

Fela Anikulapo's musical work, it is argued here, could be described as exhibiting a seamless relationship between musical vocalization and the prophetic. This claim is hinged on Fela's assertions of priesthood which we argue here could not be easily substantiated based on the facts of his musical pronouncements which when evaluated on the face value could be taken as such. As one of the most popular musicians to ever come out of the continent of Africa, Fela Anikulapo's stature transcends the realm of music. He saw himself as a spiritual leader and seer, a musical pioneer, a politician, and the arrowhead of a movement that sought to rejuvenate Africa's disparaged traditional cultural systems and dislodge the continent of its socio-political dependence on Euro-American constructs. This paper explores African indigenous epistemological spirituality through an analytical investigation and analysis of Fela Anikulapo's music. It deigns to hermeneutically unearth and juxtapose the peculiarities of Fela's music and also deconstruct how his music is informed by a socio-political strain that is autochthonous to Africa with influences from the western world. The paper also explores the nitty-gritty of his ideological persuasion and how African epistemological praxes contributed to his ideology grounding. The claim to the prophetic is herein interrogated for substantiation. The study presents how Fela was able to transform himself from just a musician into a beckon of African renaissance in a continent that continues to suffer from a dearth of quality leadership.Keywords: Indigenous Epistemologies, Spiritualties, Fela Anikulapo, Africa, Politics