The Gods Are Not To Blame
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The Gods Are Not To Blame is the title of both a 1968 play and of a 1971 novel by Ola Rotimi.
Originally written as a play as part of the African Arts (Arts d'Afrique) playwriting contest in 1969. Set in an uncertain period of a Yoruba kingdom, it is a reworking of Oedipus Rex, telling the story of Odewale, who is lured into a false sense of security, only to somehow get caught up in a somewhat consanguineous trail of events by the gods of the land.
The play text first published by the UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center in African Arts (Vol. 3, No. 2 - Winter, 1970)[1].
Adapted as a novel by the author and published by Oxford University Press in 1971.
