Two years later, Obatala, God of creation consoled the royal family by giving King Adetusa and Queen Ojuola another son, Aderopo.Thirty years later, King Adetusa was murdered and the people of Ikolu took advantage of this and attacked Kutuje. So the priest of Ogun, a member of the king’s entourage, tied the baby’s feet with a string of cowries meaning sacrifice to the gods who sent the boy to earth, and assigned the king’s special messenger, Gbonka, to go to the evil grove in the bush with the child. The only way to stop the bad future from happening was to kill the child. The priest of Ifa, Baba Fakunle cast his opele and said the child would kill his father and marry his own mother. As is the custom there, the son was taken to a priest of Ifa to tell what the boy’s future would be. In the land of Kutuje, a son was born to King Adetusa and his wife, Queen Ojuola, the king and queen of the land of Kutuje. It is a play of three acts and ten (10) scenes (act 1: 2 scenes, act 2: 4 scenes, act 3: 4 scenes).The book began with the prologue. A book summary by MC Bello Candice of the famous THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME, a play written by Ola Rotimi and first published in 1971 is the tragic story of a prince who grew up to kill his father and marry his mother.
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