Tag: Ola Rotimi
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https://encyclopedia.litcaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Untitled-design-3-1.mp4 Emmanuel Gladstone Olawale Rotimi is one of the best known Nigerian playwrights. He was born April 1938 in Sapele to a Yoruba radical Lagos trade-union activist father and an Ijaw mother. His artistic life commenced in 1942 when he performed in a play adapted and produced by his father. In his secondary school days…
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https://encyclopedia.litcaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Untitled-design-3-1.mp4 The Gods Are Not To Blame is a classic play by Ola Rotimi set in 15th Century western region of Nigeria, in which Odewale, a man destined to kill his father and marry his mother finds himself in a mill of events that brings about the very thing that was meant from his birth…