
For clarity of understanding, it is best for us to take this from a certain point which is looking at the world views that affect this play.

Various answers have emerged to support both views, but very few have said so much on what is and what is not. This debatative issue has given rise to certain discusses which of course still stands within the duo argumentative… In fact it has escalated so much that these arguments have gone beyond the reach of the Secondary school students as it is now raised in certain courses, for the discuss in the Universities mostly within the English and Literary Scholars, Theatrical Critics, etc. On one part, we have those attesting to their supposedly facts that the gods are to blame while on the other, we have persons swearing on their fathers grave that Man indeed is to blame as they use Gbonka and Alaka as accomplices to the crime. While doing my research on this, I discovered that two parts have emerged.

OLA ROTIMI FAILED IN THE CRAFTING OF HIS PLAY “THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME”įor quite an age, many have faced questions as to whether the gods are to blame or man is to blame in Ola Rotimi’s play, “The Gods Are Not To Blame.” In fact in Secondary schools in Nigeria and Africa, this question is usually used to set a division between the students as to who is to blame.
